Ps:118:24: This is
the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.
The FINISH
of Iniquity unto desolation for
them who Deny the Christ, Jesus the Lord.

Sealed up until
the "Last Days"
Let the Hasidic Naysayers deny TRUTH,
for they hate the Truth
Do you believe the Sanhedrin or its
Catholicos, truly ever wanted the Book of Enoch which testifies of the Christos
to be taken as scripture?
The Great
Sanhedrin alone had the right to appoint, or confirm the
appointment of, ... another assistant was the "
catholicos"("Yad,"
l.c. 16-17). ...
http://reluctant-messenger.com/enoch.htm
The Book of Enoch
Genesis 5:18-24 [18] Jared lived one hundred and sixty-two years, and begot
Enoch. [19] After he begot Enoch, Jared lived eight hundred years, and had sons
and daughters. [20] So all the days of Jared were nine hundred and sixty-two
years; and he died. [21] Enoch lived sixty-five years, and begot Methuselah.
[22] After he begot Methuselah, Enoch walked with God three hundred years, and
had sons and daughters. [23] So all the days of Enoch were three hundred and
sixty-five years. [24] And Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took
him.
Hebrews 11:5 By faith Enoch was taken away so that he did not see death,
"and was not found, because God had taken him"; for before he was
taken he had this testimony, that he pleased God.
Jude 1:14-15 [14] Now Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about these
men also, saying, "Behold, the Lord comes with ten
thousands of His saints, [15] to execute judgment on all, to convict all
who are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have committed
in an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken
against Him."
We first learn of Enoch in Genesis 5 but it leaves us with questions. Hebrews
11 has the answers and Jude quotes Enoch! How did Jude come to know the words of
Enoch? They are not in the Bible. The answer of course, is The Book of Enoch. A
book which is actually quoted by Jude in the New Testament. What is the Book of
Enoch and where did it come from?
Enoch was the great-grandfather of Noah. The Book of Enoch chapter 68:1
"And after that my great-grandfather Enoch gave me all the secrets in the
book and in the parables which had been given to him, and he put them together
for me in the words of the book of the parables."
The Book of Enoch was extant centuries before the birth of Christ and yet is
considered by many to be more Christian in its theology
than Jewish. It was considered scripture by many
early Christians. The earliest literature of the so-called "Church
Fathers" is filled with references to this mysterious book. The early
second century "Epistle of Barnabus" makes much use of the Book of
Enoch. Second and Third Century "Church Fathers" like Justin Martyr,
Irenaeus, Origin and Clement of Alexandria all make use of the Book of Enoch. Tertullian
(160-230 C.E) even called the Book of Enoch "Holy Scripture".
The Ethiopic Church even added the Book of Enoch to its official canon. It was
widely known and read the first three centuries after Christ. This and many
other books became discredited after the Council
of Laodicea. And being under ban of the authorities, afterwards it
gradually passed out of circulation.
At about the time of the Protestant Reformation, there came to be a renewed
interest in the Book of Enoch which had long since been lost to the modern
world. By the late 1400's rumors began to spread that somewhere a copy of the
long lost Book of Enoch might still exist. During this time many books arose
claiming to be the long lost book and were later found to be forgeries.
The return of the long lost Book of Enoch to the modern
western world is credited to the famous explorer James Bruce, who in 1773
returned from six years in Abyssinia with three Ethiopic copies of the lost
book. In 1821 Richard Laurence published the first English translation. The
famous R.H. Charles edition was published in 1912. In the following years
several portions of the Greek text surfaced. Then with the discovery of cave 4
of the Dead Sea Scrolls, seven fragmentary copies of the Aramaic text were
discovered.
There are scholars who believe the Book of Enoch was published before the
Christian era by some great unknown of Semetic race, who believing himself to be
inspired in a post-prophetic age, borrowed the name of an antediluvian patriarch
to authenticate his own enthusiastic forcast of the coming Messiah. The Book of
Enoch is divided into five basic parts, but it is the The Book of Parables
(37-71) which gives scholars the most trouble for it is primarily concerned with
a figure called "the messiah"; "the righteous one";
"the chosen one" and "the son of man."
Jesus who is forever Christ
The Book of Enoch Chapter 46:1-2 [1] There I beheld the Ancient of days whose
head was like white wool, and with him another, whose countenance resembled that
of a man. His countenance was full of grace, like that of one of the holy
angels. Then I inquired of one of the angels, who went with me, and who showed
me every secret thing, concerning this Son of man; who he
was; whence he was; and why he accompanied the Ancient of days. [2] He answered
and said to me, This is the Son of man, to whom righteousness belongs; with whom
righteousness has dwealt; and who will reveal all the treasures of that which is
concealed: for the Lord of spirits has chosen him; and his portion has surpassed
all before the Lord of spirits in everlasting uprightness."
(1) 1 Enoch
Discovery of the "Lost Text"
"The Greek word pseudepigrapha is a Greek word meaning 'falsely
superscribed,' or what we moderns might call writing under a pen name. The
classification, 'OT Pseudepigrapha,' is a label that scholars have given to
these writings."
- Craig A. Evans, Noncanonical Writings and
New Testament Interpretation, (1992) p. 22
"The Book of Enoch is a pseudepigraphical work (a work that
claims to be by a biblical character). The Book of Enoch was not
included in either the Hebrew or most Christian biblical canons, but could have
been considered a sacred text by the sectarians."
- Milik, Jazef. T., ed. The Books of Enoch:
Aramaic Fragments of Qumran Cave 4
The Book of Enoch is "an ancient composition known from two
sets of versions, an Ethiopic one that scholars identify as '1 Enoch', and a
Slavonic version that is identified as '2 Enoch', and which is also known as The
Book of the Secrets of Enoch. Both versions, of which copied manuscripts
have been found mostly in Greek and Latin translations, are based on early
sources that enlarged on the short biblical mention that Enoch, the seventh
Patriarch after Adam, did not die because, at age 365, 'he walked with God' -
taken heavenward to join the deity."
- Zecharia Sitchin, When Time Began
"I Enoch, also known as the Ethiopic Apocalypse of Enoch, is the oldest
of the three pseudepigraphal books attributed to Enoch, the man who apparently
did not die, but was taken up to heaven (Gen 5:24). The book was originally
written in either Hebrew or Aramaic, perhaps both, but it survives in complete
form only in Ethiopic (Ge'ez), and in fragmentary form in Aramaic, Greek
(1:1-32:6; 6:1-10:14; 15:8-16:1; 89:42-49; 97:6-104), and Latin
(106:1-18)."
"The materials in I Enoch range in date from 200 B.C.E. to 50 C.E. I Enoch
contributes much to intertestamental views of angels,
heaven, judgment, resurrection, and the Messiah. This book has left its
stamp upon many of the NT writers, especially the author of Revelation."
- Craig A. Evans, Noncanonical Writings and
New Testament Interpretation, (1992) p. 23
The Revelation was and is the Revelation of Jesus
Christ, and sent by the angel to John on the isle of Patmos
"Prior to the eighteenth century, scholars had believed the Book
of Enoch to be irretrievably lost: composed long before the birth of
Christ, and considered to be one of the most important pieces of Jewish
mystical literature, it was only known from fragments and from references to it
in other texts. James Bruce changed all this by procuring several copies of the
missing work during his stay in Ethiopia. These were the first complete editions
of the Book of Enoch ever to be seen in Europe."
- Graham Hancock, The Sign and the Seal
"The Book of Enoch remained in darkness
until 1821, when the long years of dedicated work by a professor of
Hebrew at the University of Oxford were finally rewarded with the publication of
the first ever English translation of the Book of Enoch. The Reverend
Richard Laurence, Archbishop of Cashel, had labored for many hundreds of hours
over the faded manuscript in the hands of the Bodleian Library, carefully
substituting English words and expressions for the original Geez, while
comparing the results with known extracts, such as the few brief chapters
preserved in Greek by Syncellus during the ninth century."
- Andrew Collins, From the Ashes of Angels -
The Forbidden Legacy of a Fallen Race (1996) p. 21
"The original Aramaic version was lost until the Dead Sea fragments were
discovered."
"The original language of most of this work was, in all likelihood, Aramaic
(an early Semitic language). Although the original version was lost in
antiquity, portions of a Greek translation were discovered in Egypt and
quotations were known from the Church Fathers. The discovery of the texts from
Qumran Cave 4 has finally provided parts of the Aramaic original. ...Humankind
is called on to observe how unchanging nature follows God's will."
- Milik, Jazef. T., ed. The Books of Enoch:
Aramaic Fragments of Qumran Cave 4
Composition
"1 Enoch, preserved in a full, 108-chapter form in Ethiopic, consists of
five parts and one appended chapter. It originated in Aramaic (perhaps Hebrew
for chaps. 37-71), was translated into Greek, and from Greek into Ethiopic."
- James C. Vanderkam (Professor of Hebrew
Scriptures at the University of Notre Dame)
"The Aramaic Book of Enoch...very
considerably influenced the idiom of the New Testament and patristic literature,
more so in fact than any other writing of the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha."
- Norman Golb, Who Wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls?,
(1995) p. 366
"As it now stands, I Enoch appears to consist of the following five
major divisions:
(1) The Book of the Watchers (chaps. 1-36);
(2) The Book of the Similitudes (chaps. 37-7l)-,
(3) The Book of Astronomical Writings (chaps. 72-82);
(4) The Book of Dream Visions (chaps. 83-90); and
(5) The Book of the Epistle of Enoch (chaps.
91-107)."
- Craig A. Evans, Noncanonical Writings and
New Testament Interpretation, (1992) p. 23
"Chaps. 1-36 The Book of the Watchers may date from the third century
BCE. Parts of its text have been identified on several copies from Qumran cave
4; the earliest fragmentary manuscript (4QEnocha) dates, according to the editor
J.T. Milk, to between 200 and 150 BCE. All Qumran copies are in the Aramaic
language."
- James C. Vanderkam
"James Vanderkam divides the first part of 1 Enoch into five sections:
1-5 a theophany followed by an eschatological admonition
6-11 the angel story (stories)
12-16 Enoch and the failed petition of the angels who
descended,
17-19 Enoch's first journey,
20-36 Enoch's second journey (chap. 20 is a list of
angels who are connected with the journeys)."
- Tom Simms (CrossTalk)
"Chaps. 37-71 The Book of Parables (or the Similitudes of Enoch) may
have been composed in the late first century BCE; a number of scholars prefer to
place it in the first or even the second century CE. Milik assigns it to the
late third century CE. No fragments of these chapters have been found at Qumran,
and some think their original language was Hebrew, not Aramaic."
- James C. Vanderkam
"Chaps. 72-82 The Astronomical Book, like the Book of Watchers, may date
from the third century BCE; the oldest copy of it seems to have been made not
long after 200 BCE. Sizable portions of the text are preserved on four copies,
written in Aramaic, from Qumran cave 4. The Aramaic original appears to have
been much different and much longer than the Ethiopic text, adding far more
astronomical details."
- James C. Vanderkam
Authorship
"A world view so encyclopaediac that it embraced the geography of heaven
and earth, astronomy, meteorology, medicine was no part of Jewish tradition -
but was familiar to educated Greeks, but attempting to emulate and surpass Greek
wisdom, by having an integrating divine plan for destiny, elaborated through an
angelic host with which Enoch is in communication through his mystical
travels."
- Chris King, "The
Apocalyptic Tradition"
Although the Book of Enoch is considered as apocryphal, it was
clearly known to early Christian writers as the following quote from 1 Enoch 1:9
indicates:
"In the seventh (generation) from Adam Enoch also
prophesied these things, saying: 'Behold, the Lord came with his holy myriads,
to execute judgment on all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their
ungodly deeds which they have committed in such an ungodly way, and of all the
harsh things which ungodly sinners spoke against him'."
- Jude 14-15
2 Enoch
"2 Enoch, or the Slavonic Apocalypse of Enoch, was written late first
century C.E. in Egypt by a Jew. It survives only in late Old Slavonic
manuscripts. It may have been composed originally in Aramaic or Hebrew, later
being translated into Greek, and later still being translated into Old Slavonic.
It is an amplification of Gen 5:21-32 (from Enoch to the Flood). Major
theological themes include:
(1) God created the world out of nothing (24:2);
(2) seven heavens (30:2-3) and angelic hosts;
(3) God created the souls of men before the
foundation of the earth (23:5);
(4) abodes of heaven and hell are already prepared
for righteous and sinners; and
(5) ethical teachings, which at times parallel
those of the NT and Proverbs."
- Craig A. Evans, Noncanonical Writings and
New Testament Interpretation, (1992) p. 23
Date: 07/22/2000 Author: David Chariot "beth_marcaboth@hotmail.com"
posted in alt.religion.christian.pentecostal
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About the Book of Enoch
(also known as "Ethiopian Enoch" or "1 Enoch")
The Book of Enoch (also known as 1 Enoch) was once cherished by Jews and
Christians alike, this book later fell into disfavor with powerful theologians -
precisely because of its controversial statements on the nature and deeds of the
fallen angels.
The Enochian writings, in addition to many other writings that were excluded (or
lost) from the Bible (i.e., the Book of Tobit, Esdras, etc.) were widely
recognized by many of the early church fathers as "apocryphal"
writings. The term "apocrypha" is derived from the Greek word
meaning "hidden" or "secret". Originally, the import
of the term may have been complimentary in that the term was applied to sacred
books whose contents were too exalted to be made available to the general
public.
In Dan. 12:9-10 we hear of words that are shut up until the end of time and,
words that the wise shall understand and the wicked shall not. In addition, 4
Ezra 14:44ff. mentions 94 books, of which 24 (the OT) were to be published and
70 were to be delivered only to the wise among the people (= apocrypha).
Gradually, the term "apocrypha" took on a pejorative connotation, for
the orthodoxy of these hidden books was often questionable. Origen (Comm. in
Matt. 10.18; p. 13.881)
distinguished between books that were to be read in public worship and
apocryphal books. Because these secret books were often preserved for use within
the esoteric circles of the divinely - knit believers, many of the critically -
spirited or "unenlightened" Church Fathers found themselves outside
the realm of understanding, and therefore came to apply the term
"apocryphal" to, what they claimed to be, heretical works which were
forbidden to be read.
In Protestant parlance, "the Apocrypha" designate 15 works, all but
one of which are Jewish in origin and found in the Septuagint (parts of 2 Esdras
are Christian and Latin in origin). Although some of them were composed in
Palestine in Aramaic or Hebrew, they were not accepted into the Jewish
canon formed late in the 2nd cent. AD (Canonicity, 67:31-35). The
Reformers, influenced by the Jewish canon of the OT, did not consider these
books on a par with the rest of the Scriptures; thus the custom arose of making
the Apocrypha a separate section in the
Protestant Bible, or sometimes even of omitting them entirely
(Canonicity, 67:44-46). The Catholic
view, expressed as a doctrine of faith at the Council of Trent, is that
12 of these 15 works (in a different enumeration, however) are canonical
Scripture; they are called the Deuterocanonical Books (Canonicity, 67:21,
42-43).
The three books of the Protestant Apocrypha that are not accepted by Catholics
are 1-2 Esdras and the Prayer of Manasseh. The
theme of the Book of Enoch dealing with the nature and deeds of the fallen
angels so infuriated the later Church fathers that one, Filastrius, actually
condemned it openly as heresy (Filastrius, Liber de Haeresibus, no. 108).
Nor did the rabbis deign to give credence to the
book's teaching about angels. Rabbi Simeon ben Jochai in the second century A.D.
pronounced a curse upon those who believed it (Delitzsch,
p. 223). So the book was denounced, banned, cursed, no doubt burned and
shredded - and last but not least, lost (and conveniently forgotten) for a
thousand years. But with an uncanny persistence, the Book
of Enoch found its way back into circulation two centuries ago.
In 1773, rumors of a surviving copy of the book drew Scottish explorer James
Bruce to distant Ethiopia. True to hearsay, the Book of Enoch had been preserved
by the Ethiopic church, which put it right alongside the other books of the
Bible. Bruce secured not one, but three Ethiopic copies of the book and brought
them back to Europe and Britain. When in 1821 Dr. Richard Laurence, a Hebrew
professor at Oxford, produced the first English translation of the work, the
modern world gained its first glimpse of the forbidden mysteries of Enoch.
Most scholars say that the present form of the
story in the Book of Enoch was penned sometime during the second century B.C.
and was popular for at least five hundred years. The earliest Ethiopic text was
apparently made from a Greek manuscript of the Book of Enoch, which itself was a
copy of an earlier text. The original was apparently written in Semitic
language, now thought to be Aramaic.
Though it was once believed to be post-Christian (the
similarities to Christian terminology and teaching are striking), recent
discoveries of copies of the book among the Dead Sea Scrolls found at Qumran
prove that the book was in existence before the time of
Jesus Christ. But the date of the original writing upon which the second
century B.C. Qumran copies were based is shrouded in obscurity. It is, in a
word, old. It has been largely the opinion of historians that the book
does not really contain the authentic words of the ancient biblical patriarch
Enoch, since he would have lived (based on the chronologies in the Book of
Genesis) several thousand years earlier than the first known appearance of the
book attributed to him.
Despite its unknown origins, Christians once accepted the
words of this Book of Enoch as authentic scripture, especially the part about
the fallen angels and their prophesied judgment. In fact, many of the key
concepts used by Jesus Christ himself seem directly connected to terms and ideas
in the Book of Enoch. Thus, it is hard to avoid the conclusion that
Jesus had not only studied the book, but also respected it highly enough to
adopt and elaborate on its specific descriptions of the coming kingdom and its
theme of inevitable judgment descending upon "the wicked" - the term
most often used in the Old Testament to describe the Watchers.
There is abundant proof that Christ approved of the Book
of Enoch. Over a hundred phrases in the New Testament find precedents in the
Book of Enoch. Another remarkable bit of evidence for the early
Christians' acceptance of the Book of Enoch was for many years buried under the
King James Bible's mistranslation of Luke 9:35, describing the
transfiguration of Christ: "And there came a voice out of the cloud,
saying, 'This is my beloved Son: hear him." Apparently the translator here
wished to make this verse agree with a similar verse in Matthew and Mark. But
Luke's verse in the original Greek reads: "This is my
Son, the Elect One (from the Greek ho eklelegmenos, lit., "the elect
one"): hear him." The "Elect
One" is a most significant term (found fourteen times) in the Book of
Enoch. If the book was indeed known to the apostles of Christ, with
its abundant descriptions of the Elect One who should "sit upon the throne
of glory" and the Elect One who should "dwell in the midst of
them," then the great scriptural authenticity is accorded to the Book of
Enoch when the "voice out of the cloud" tells the apostles, "This
is my Son, the Elect One" - the one promised in the Book of Enoch.
The Book of Jude tells us in vs. 14 that "Enoch, the seventh from Adam,
prophesied..." Jude also, in vs. 15, makes a direct reference to the Book
of Enoch (2:1), where he writes, "to execute judgment on all, to convict
all who are ungodly..." The time difference between
Enoch and Jude is approximately 3400 years. Therefore,
Jude's reference to the Enochian prophesies strongly leans toward the conclusion
that these written prophesies were available to him at that time.
Fragments of ten Enoch manuscripts were found among the Dead Sea Scrolls.
The famous scrolls actually comprise only one part of the total findings at
Qumran. Much of the rest was Enochian literature, copies of the Book of Enoch,
and other apocryphal works in the Enochian tradition, like the Book of Jubilees.
With so many copies around, the Essenes could well have used the Enochian
writings as a community prayer book or teacher's manual and study text.
The Book of Enoch was also used by writers of the noncanonical (i.e. apocryphal
or "hidden") texts. The author of the apocryphal Epistle of Barnabas
quotes the Book of Enoch three times, twice calling it "the
Scripture," a term specifically denoting the inspired Word of God (Epis. of
Barnabas 4:3, 16:5,6). Other apocryphal works reflect knowledge of the Enoch
story of the Watchers, notably the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs and the
Book of Jubilees.
Many of the early church fathers also supported the Enochian writings. Justin
Martyr ascribed all evil to demons whom he alleged to be the offspring of the
angels who fell through lust for women (from the Ibid.)-directly referencing the
Enochian writings. Athenagoras, writing in his work called Legatio
in about 170 A.D., regards Enoch as a true prophet. He describes the angels
which "violated both their own nature and their office." In his
writings, he goes into detail about the nature of fallen angels and the cause of
their fall, which comes directly from the Enochian writings.
Many other church fathers: Tatian (110-172); Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyons
(115-185); Clement of Alexandria (150-220); Tertullian (160-230); Origen
(186-255); Lactantius (260-330); in addition to: Methodius of Philippi, Minucius
Felix, Commodianus, and Ambrose of Milanalso-also approved of and supported the
Enochian writings.
The twentieth-century discovery of several Aramaic Enochian texts among the Dead
Sea Scrolls prompted Catholic scholar J.T. Milik to compile a complete history
of the Enochian writings, including translations of the Aramaic manuscripts.
Milik's 400-page book, published in 1976 by Oxford (J. T. Milik, ed. and trans.,
The Books of Enoch: Aramaic Fragments of Qumran Cave 4, Oxford: Clarendon Press,
1976) is a milestone in Enochian scholarship, and Milik himself is no doubt one
of the finest experts on the subject. His opinions, based as they are on years
of in-depth research, are highly respected.
One by one the arguments against the Book of Enoch fade
away. The day may soon arrive when the final complaints about the Book of
Enoch's lack of historicity and "late date" are also silenced by new
evidence of the book's real antiquity.
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The Jewish Sanhedrin at Yavneh c. 90 AD removed this book from
its Scriptures. Partly
due to this, the book was discredited after the (Christian)
Council of Laodicea in 364. The
Greek text was subsequently lost. The early Christian father
Tertullian wrote c. 200 AD
that the
Book
of Enoch had
been rejected by the Jews, because it contained prophecies
pertaining to Christ.
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INTRODUCTION
[Chapter 1]
1
The words of the blessing of Enoch,
wherewith he blessed the elect and righteous, who will be 2
living in the day of tribulation, when all the wicked and godless are to
be removed.
Matt.24:1: And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple.
2: And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.
3: And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?
4: And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.
5: For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.
6: And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
7: For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8: All these are the beginning of sorrows.
9: Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake.
10: And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.
11: And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.
12: And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.
13: But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
14: And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.
15: When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)
16: Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains:
17: Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house:
18: Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes.
19: And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!
20: But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day:
21: For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
22: And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.
And
he took up his parable and said -Enoch
a righteous man, whose eyes were opened by God, saw the vision of the Holy One
in the heavens, which the angels showed me, and from them I heard everything,
and from them I understood as I saw, but
not for this generation, but for a remote one which is 3
for to come. Concerning the elect I said, and took up my parable concerning
them:
The Holy Great One
will come forth from His dwelling,
4
And the eternal God will tread upon the earth, (even) on Mount Sinai,
[And appear from
His camp]
And appear in the
strength of His might from the heaven of heavens.
5
And all shall be smitten with fear
And the Watchers
shall quake,
And great fear and
trembling shall seize them unto the ends of the earth.
Rev.6:10: And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?
11: And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.
12: And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;
13: And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.
14: And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.
15: And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains;
16: And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:
17: For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?
6
And the high mountains shall be shaken,
And the high hills
shall be made low,
And shall melt
like wax before the flame
7
And the earth shall be wholly rent in sunder,
And all that is
upon the earth shall perish,
And there shall be
a judgement upon all (men).
Rv:21:1: And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.
8
But with the righteous He will make peace.
Rv:11:18: And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.
Rv:15:3: And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints.
And will protect
the elect,
And mercy shall be
upon them.
And they shall all
belong to God,
And they shall be
prospered,
And they shall all
be blessed.
And He will help
them all,
And light shall
appear unto them,
And He will make
peace with them'.
9
And behold! He cometh with ten thousands of His holy ones
To
execute judgement upon all,
And
to destroy all the ungodly:
Jude 1:14: And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,
15: To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
16: These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men's persons in admiration because of advantage.
17: But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;
18: How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.
19: These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.
20: But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,
21: Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
And to convict all
flesh
Of
all the works of their ungodliness which they have ungodly committed,
And
of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.
2
Thes. 2:1: Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,
2: That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.
3: Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
4: Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
5: Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?
6: And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.
7: For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.
8: And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
9: Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
10: And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
11: And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
12: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
13: But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:
14: Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
15: Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle.
16: Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace,
17: Comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good word and work.
[Chapter 2]
1
Observe ye everything that takes place in the heaven, how they do not change
their orbits, and the luminaries which are in the heaven, how they all rise and
set in order each in its season, and 2 transgress
not against their appointed order. Behold ye the earth, and give heed to the
things which take place upon it from first to last,
how steadfast they are, how none of the things upon earth 3
change, but all the works of God appear to you. Behold the summer and the
winter, how the whole earth is filled with water, and clouds and dew and rain
lie upon it.
[Chapter 3]
Observe
and see how (in the winter) all the trees seem as though they had withered and
shed all their leaves, except fourteen trees, which do not lose their foliage
but retain the old foliage from two to three years till the new comes.
[Chapter 4]
And
again, observe ye the days
of summer how the sun is above the earth over against it. And you seek shade and
shelter by reason of the heat of the sun, and the earth also burns with growing
heat, and so you cannot tread on the earth, or on a rock by reason of its heat.
[Chapter 5]
1
Observe ye how the trees cover themselves with green leaves and bear fruit:
wherefore give ye heed and know with regard to all His works, and recognize how
He that liveth for ever hath made them so. 2 And
all His works go on thus from year to year for ever, and all the tasks which
they accomplish for Him, and their tasks change not, but according as God hath
ordained so is it done. 3 And behold how the sea
and the rivers in like manner accomplish and change not their tasks from His
commandments'.
4
But ye -ye have not been steadfast, nor done the commandments of the Lord,
But
ye have turned away and spoken proud and hard words
With
your impure mouths against His greatness.
Oh,
ye hard-hearted, ye shall find no peace.
5
Therefore shall ye execrate your days,
And
the years of your life shall perish,
And
the years of your destruction shall be multiplied in eternal execration,
And
ye shall find no mercy.
6a
In those days ye
shall make your names an eternal execration unto all the righteous,
b
And by you shall all who curse, curse,
And
all the sinners and godless shall imprecate by you,
7c
And for you the godless there shall be a curse.
Mt:27:25: Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children.
6d
And all the . . . shall rejoice,
e
And there shall be forgiveness of sins,
f
And every mercy and peace and forbearance:
g
There shall be salvation unto them, a goodly light.
i
And for all of you sinners there shall be no salvation,
j
But on you all shall abide a curse.
7a
But for the elect there shall be light and joy and peace,
b
And they shall inherit the earth.
Rv:21:1: And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.
8
And then there shall be bestowed upon the elect wisdom,
And
they shall all live and never again sin,
Either
through ungodliness or through pride:
But
they who are wise shall be humble.
9
And they shall not again transgress,
Nor
shall they sin all the days
of their life,
Nor
shall they die of (the divine) anger or wrath,
But
they shall complete the number of the days
of their life.
And
their lives shall be increased in peace,
And
the years of their joy shall be multiplied,
In
eternal gladness and peace,
All
the days of their life
[Chapter 6]
1
And it came to pass when the children of men had multiplied that in those days
were born unto 2 them beautiful and comely
daughters. And the angels, the children of the heaven, saw
and lusted after them, and said to one another: 'Come, let us choose us wives
from among the children of men 3 and beget us
children.' And Semjaza, who was their leader, said unto them: 'I fear ye will
not 4 indeed agree to do this deed, and I alone
shall have to pay the penalty of a great sin.' And they all answered him and
said: 'Let us all swear an oath, and all bind ourselves by mutual imprecations 5
not to abandon this plan but to do this thing.' Then sware they all together and
bound themselves 6 by mutual imprecations upon it.
And they were in all two hundred; who descended in the days
of Jared on the summit of Mount
Hermon, and they called it Mount Hermon, because they had sworn 7
and bound themselves by mutual imprecations upon it. And these are the names of
their leaders: Samlazaz, their leader, Araklba, Rameel, Kokablel, Tamlel, Ramlel,
Danel, Ezeqeel, Baraqijal, 8 Asael, Armaros,
Batarel, Ananel, Zaqiel, Samsapeel, Satarel, Turel, Jomjael, Sariel. These are
their chiefs of tens.
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Genesis
6:1: And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,
2: That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
3: And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
4: There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
5: And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
[Chapter 7]
1
And all the others together with them took unto themselves wives, and each chose
for himself one, and they began to go in unto them and to
defile themselves with them, and they taught them charms 2
and enchantments, and the cutting of roots, and made them acquainted with
plants. And they 3 became pregnant, and they bare
great giants, whose height was three thousand ells: Who consumed 4
all the acquisitions of men. And when men could no longer sustain them, the
giants turned against 5 them and devoured mankind.
And they began to sin against birds, and beasts, and reptiles, and 6
fish, and to devour one another's flesh, and drink the blood. Then the earth
laid accusation against the lawless ones.
4:
There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
5: And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
Genesis
6:6: And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
7: And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
8: But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
[Chapter 8]
1
And Azazel taught men to make swords, and knives, and shields, and breastplates,
and made known to them the metals of the earth and the art of working them, and
bracelets, and ornaments, and the use of antimony, and the beautifying of the
eyelids, and all kinds of costly stones, and all 2
colouring tinctures. And there arose much godlessness, and
they committed fornication, and they 3 were led
astray, and became corrupt in all their ways. Semjaza taught enchantments, and
root-cuttings, 'Armaros the resolving of enchantments, Baraqijal (taught)
astrology, Kokabel the constellations, Ezeqeel the knowledge of the clouds,
Araqiel the signs of the earth, Shamsiel the signs of the sun, and Sariel the
course of the moon. And as men perished, they cried, and their cry went up to
heaven . . .
7: And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
[Chapter 9]
1
And then Michael, Uriel, Raphael, and Gabriel looked down from heaven and saw
much blood being 2 shed upon the earth, and all
lawlessness being wrought upon the earth. And they said one to another: 'The
earth made without inhabitant cries the voice of their cryingst up to the gates
of heaven. 3 And now to you, the holy ones of
heaven, the souls of men make their suit, saying, "Bring our cause 4
before the Most High."' And they said to the Lord of the ages: 'Lord of
lords, God of gods, King of kings, and God of the ages, the throne of Thy glory
(standeth) unto all the generations of the 5 ages,
and Thy name holy and glorious and blessed unto all the ages! Thou hast made all
things, and power over all things hast Thou: and all things are naked and open
in Thy sight, and Thou seest all 6 things, and
nothing can hide itself from Thee. Thou seest what Azazel
hath done, who hath taught all unrighteousness on earth and revealed the eternal
secrets which were (preserved) in heaven, which 7
men were striving to learn: And Semjaza, to whom Thou hast given authority to
bear rule over his associates. And they have gone to the daughters of men upon
the earth, and have slept with the 9 women, and
have defiled themselves, and revealed to them all kinds of sins. And the women
have 10 borne giants, and the whole earth has
thereby been filled with blood and unrighteousness. And now, behold, the
souls of those who have died are crying and making their suit to the gates of
heaven, and their lamentations have ascended: and cannot cease because of the
lawless deeds which are 11 wrought on the earth.
And Thou knowest all things before they come to pass, and Thou seest these
things and Thou dost suffer them, and Thou dost not say to us what we are to do
to them in regard to these.'
Rv:5:8: And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints.
Rv:8:3: And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne.
Rv:8:4: And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel's hand.
[Chapter 10]
1
Then said the Most High, the Holy and Great One spake, and sent Uriel to the son
of Lamech, 2 and said to him: 'Go to Noah and tell
him in my name "Hide thyself!" and reveal to him the end that is
approaching: that the whole earth will be destroyed, and a deluge is about to
come 3 upon the whole earth, and will destroy all
that is on it. And now instruct him that he may escape 4
and his seed may be preserved for all the generations of the world.' And
again the Lord said to Raphael: 'Bind Azazel hand and foot, and cast him into
the darkness: and make an opening 5 in the desert,
which is in Dudael, and cast him therein. And place upon him rough and jagged
rocks, and cover him with darkness, and let him abide there for ever, and cover
his face that he may 6,7 not
see light. And on the day of the great judgement he shall be cast into the fire.
And heal the earth which the angels have corrupted, and proclaim the healing of
the earth, that they may heal the plague, and that all the children of men may
not perish through all the secret things that the 8
Watchers have disclosed and have taught their sons. And
the whole earth has been corrupted 9 through the
works that were taught by Azazel:
to him ascribe all sin.' And to Gabriel said the
Lord: 'Proceed against the bastards and the reprobates, and against the children
of fornication: and destroy [the children of fornication and] the children of
the Watchers from amongst men [and cause them to go forth]: send them one
against the other that they may destroy each other in 10
battle: for length of days shall they
not have. And no request that they (i.e. their fathers) make of thee shall be
granted unto their fathers on their behalf; for they hope to live an eternal
life, and 11 that each one of them will live five
hundred years.' And the Lord said unto Michael: 'Go, bind Semjaza and his
associates who have united themselves with women so as to have defiled
themselves 12 with them in all their uncleanness.
And when their sons have slain one another, and they have seen the destruction
of their beloved ones, bind them fast for seventy
generations in the valleys of the earth, till the day of their judgement and of
their consummation, till the judgement that is 13
for ever and ever is consummated. In those days
they shall be led off to the abyss of fire: and 14
to the torment and the prison in which they shall be confined for ever. And
whosoever shall be condemned and destroyed will from thenceforth be bound
together with them to the end of all 15
generations. And destroy all the spirits of the reprobate and the children of
the Watchers, because 16 they have wronged
mankind. Destroy all wrong from the face of the earth and let every evil work
come to an end: and let the plant of righteousness and truth appear: and it
shall prove a blessing; the works of righteousness and truth' shall be planted
in truth and joy for evermore.
Rv:9:1: And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit.
Rv:9:2: And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.
Rv:9:11: And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.
Rv:11:7: And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them.
Rv:17:8: The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.
Rv:20:1: And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.
Rv:20:3: And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.
17
And then shall all the righteous escape,
And
shall live till they beget thousands of children
And
all the days of their
youth and their old age
Shall
they complete in peace.
18
And then shall the whole earth be tilled in righteousness, and shall all be
planted with trees and 19 be full of blessing.
And all desirable trees shall be planted on it, and they shall plant vines on
it: and the vine which they plant thereon shall yield wine in abundance, and as
for all the seed which is sown thereon each measure (of it) shall bear a
thousand, and each measure of olives shall yield 20
ten presses of oil. And cleanse thou the earth from all oppression, and from all
unrighteousness, and from all sin, and from all godlessness: and all the
uncleanness that is wrought upon the earth 21
destroy from off the earth. And all the children of men
shall become righteous, and all nations 22 shall
offer adoration and shall praise Me, and all shall worship Me. And the
earth shall be cleansed from all defilement, and from all sin, and from all
punishment, and from all torment, and I will never again send (them) upon it
from generation to generation and for ever.
[Chapter 11]
1
And in those days I will
open the store chambers of blessing which are in the heaven, so as to send 2
them down upon the earth over the work and labour of the children of men. And
truth and peace shall be associated together throughout all the days
of the world and throughout all the generations of men.'
[Chapter 12]
1
Before these things Enoch
was hidden, and no one of the children of men knew where he was 2
hidden, and where he abode, and what had become of him. And his activities had
to do with the Watchers, and his days
were with the holy ones. 3 And I Enoch
was blessing the Lord of majesty and the King of the ages, and lo! the Watchers 4
called me -Enoch the
scribe- and said to me: 'Enoch,
thou scribe of righteousness, (Jesus
the Only Righteous) go, declare to the Watchers of the heaven who have
left the high heaven, the holy eternal place, and have defiled themselves with
women, and have done as the children of earth do, and have taken unto themselves
5 wives: "Ye have wrought great destruction
on the earth: And ye shall have no peace nor forgiveness 6
of sin: and inasmuch as they delight themselves in their children, The murder of
their beloved ones shall they see, and over the destruction of their children
shall they lament, and shall make supplication unto eternity, but mercy and
peace shall ye not attain."'
[Chapter 13]
1
And Enoch went and said:
'Azazel, thou shalt have no peace: a severe sentence has gone forth 2
against thee to put thee in bonds: And thou shalt not have toleration nor
request granted to thee, because of the unrighteousness which thou hast taught,
and because of all the works of godlessness 3 and
unrighteousness and sin which thou hast shown to men.' Then I went and spoke to
them all 4 together, and they were all afraid, and
fear and trembling seized them. And they besought me to draw up a petition for
them that they might find forgiveness, and to read their petition in the
presence 5 of the Lord of heaven. For from
thenceforward they could not speak (with Him) nor lift up their 6
eyes to heaven for shame of their sins for which they had been condemned. Then I
wrote out their petition, and the prayer in regard to their spirits and their
deeds individually and in regard to their 7
requests that they should have forgiveness and length. And I went off and sat
down at the waters of Dan, in the land
of Dan, to the south of the west of Hermon:
I read their petition till I fell 8 asleep. And
behold a dream came to me, and visions fell down upon me, and I saw visions of
chastisement, and a voice came bidding (me) I to tell it to the sons of heaven,
and reprimand them. 9 And when I awaked, I came
unto them, and they were all sitting gathered together, weeping in 10
'Abelsjail, which is between Lebanon and Seneser,
with their faces covered. And I recounted before them all the visions which I
had seen in sleep, and I began to speak the words of righteousness, and to
reprimand the heavenly Watchers.
[Chapter 14]
1
The book of the words of
righteousness, and of the reprimand of the eternal Watchers in accordance 2
with the command of the Holy Great One in that vision. I saw in my sleep what I
will now say with a tongue of flesh and with the breath of my mouth: which the
Great One has given to men to 3 converse therewith
and understand with the heart. As He has created and given to man the power of
understanding the word of wisdom, so hath He created me also and given me the
power of reprimanding 4 the Watchers, the children
of heaven. I wrote out your petition, and in my vision it appeared thus, that
your petition will not be granted unto you throughout all the days
of eternity, and that judgement 5 has been finally
passed upon you: yea (your petition) will not be granted unto you. And from
henceforth you shall not ascend into heaven unto all eternity, and in bonds of
the earth the decree 6 has gone forth to bind you
for all the days of the
world. And (that) previously you shall have seen the destruction of your beloved
sons and ye shall have no pleasure in them, but they shall fall before 7
you by the sword. And your petition on their behalf shall not be granted, nor
yet on your own: even though you weep and pray and speak all the words contained
in the writing which I have 8 written. And the
vision was shown to me thus: Behold, in the vision clouds invited me and a mist
summoned me, and the course of the stars and the lightnings sped and hastened
me, and the winds in 9 the vision caused me to fly
and lifted me upward, and bore me into heaven. And I went in till I drew nigh to
a wall which is built of crystals and surrounded by tongues of fire: and it
began to affright 10 me. And I went into the
tongues of fire and drew nigh to a large house which was built of crystals: and
the walls of the house were like a tesselated floor (made) of crystals, and its
groundwork was 11 of crystal. Its ceiling was
like the path of the stars and the lightnings, and between them were 12
fiery cherubim, and their heaven was (clear as) water. A flaming fire surrounded
the walls, and its 13 portals blazed with fire.
And I entered into that house, and it was hot as fire and cold as ice: there 14
were no delights of life therein: fear covered me, and trembling got hold upon
me. And as I quaked 15 and trembled, I fell upon
my face. And I beheld a vision, And lo! there was a second house, greater 16
than the former, and the entire portal stood open before me, and it was built of
flames of fire. And in every respect it so excelled in splendour and
magnificence and extent that I cannot describe to 17
you its splendour and its extent. And its floor was of fire, and above it were
lightnings and the path 18 of the stars, and its
ceiling also was flaming fire. And I looked and saw therein a lofty throne: its
appearance was as crystal, and the wheels thereof as the shining sun, and there
was the vision of 19 cherubim. And from
underneath the throne came streams of flaming fire so that I could not look 20
thereon. And the Great Glory sat thereon, and His raiment shone more brightly
than the sun and 21 was whiter than any snow.
None of the angels could enter and could behold His face by reason 22
of the magnificence and glory and no flesh could behold Him. The flaming fire
was round about Him, and a great fire stood before Him, and none around could
draw nigh Him: ten thousand times 23
ten thousand (stood) before Him, yet He needed no counselor. And the most
holy ones who were 24 nigh to Him did not leave
by night nor depart from Him. And until then I had been prostrate on my face,
trembling: and the Lord called me with His own mouth, and said to me: ' Come
hither, 25 Enoch,
and hear my word.' And one of the holy ones came to me and waked me, and He made
me rise up and approach the door: and I bowed my face downwards.
[Chapter 15]
1
And He answered and said to me, and I heard His voice: 'Fear not, Enoch,
thou righteous 2 man and scribe
of righteousness: approach hither and hear my voice. And go, say to the
Watchers of heaven, who have sent thee to intercede for them: "You should
intercede" for men, and not men 3 for you:
Wherefore have ye left the high, holy, and eternal heaven, and lain with women,
and defiled yourselves with the daughters of men and taken to yourselves wives,
and done like the children 4 of earth, and
begotten giants (as your) sons? And though ye were holy, spiritual, living the
eternal life, you have defiled yourselves with the blood of women, and have
begotten (children) with the blood of flesh, and, as the children of men, have
lusted after flesh and blood as those also do who die 5
and perish. Therefore have I given them wives also that they might impregnate
them, and beget 6 children by them, that thus
nothing might be wanting to them on earth. But you were formerly 7
spiritual, living the eternal life, and immortal for all generations of the
world. And therefore I have not appointed wives for you; for as for the
spiritual ones of the heaven, in heaven is their dwelling. 8
And now, the giants, who are produced from the spirits and
flesh, shall be called evil spirits upon 9
the earth, and on the earth shall be their dwelling. Evil spirits
have proceeded from their bodies; because they are born from men and from the
holy Watchers is their beginning and primal origin; 10
they shall be evil spirits on earth, and evil spirits shall they be called. [As
for the spirits of heaven, in heaven shall be their dwelling, but as for the
spirits of the earth which were born upon the earth, on the earth shall be their
dwelling.] And the spirits of the giants afflict, oppress, destroy, attack, do
battle, and work destruction on the earth, and cause trouble: they take no food,
but nevertheless 12 hunger and thirst, and cause
offences. And these spirits shall rise up against the
children of men and against the women, because they have proceeded from them.
Rv:16:14: For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.
[Chapter 16]
1
From the days of the
slaughter and destruction and death of the giants, from the souls
of whose flesh the spirits, having gone forth, shall destroy without incurring
judgement -thus shall they destroy until the day of the consummation, the great
judgement in which the age shall be 2 consummated,
over the Watchers and the godless, yea, shall be wholly consummated." And
now as to the watchers who have sent thee to intercede for them, who had been
aforetime in heaven, (say 3 to them): "You
have been in heaven, but all the mysteries had not yet been revealed to you, and
you knew worthless ones, and these in the hardness of your hearts you have made
known to the women, and through these mysteries women and men work much evil on
earth." 4 Say to them therefore: "
You have no peace."'
[Chapter 17]
1
And they took and brought me to a place in which those who were there were like
flaming fire, 2 and, when
they wished, they appeared as men. And they brought me to the place of
darkness, and to a mountain the point of whose summit reached to heaven. And I
saw the places of the luminaries and the treasuries of the stars and of the
thunder and in the uttermost depths, where were 4
a fiery bow and arrows and their quiver, and a fiery sword and all the
lightnings. And they took 5 me to the living
waters, and to the fire of the west, which receives every setting of the
sun. And I came to a river of fire in which the fire flows like water and
discharges itself into the great sea towards 6 the
west. I saw the great rivers and came to the great river and to the great
darkness, and went 7 to the place where no flesh
walks. I saw the mountains of the darkness of winter and the place 8
whence all the waters of the deep flow. I saw the mouths of all the rivers of
the earth and the mouth of the deep.
[Chapter 18]
1
I saw the treasuries of all the winds: I saw how He had furnished with them the
whole creation 2 and the firm foundations of the
earth. And I saw the corner-stone of the earth: I saw the four 3
winds which bear [the earth and] the firmament of the heaven. And I saw how the
winds stretch out the vaults of heaven, and have their station between heaven
and earth: these are the pillars 4 of the heaven.
I saw the winds of heaven which turn and bring the circumference of the sun and 5
all the stars to their setting. I saw the winds on the earth carrying the
clouds: I saw the paths 6 of the angels. I saw at
the end of the earth the firmament of the heaven above. And I proceeded and saw
a place which burns day and night, where there are seven mountains of
magnificent stones, 7 three towards the east, and
three towards the south. And as for those towards the east, was of coloured
stone, and one of pearl, and one of jacinth, and those towards the south of red
stone. 8 But the middle one reached to heaven like
the throne of God, of alabaster, and the summit of the 9,10
throne was of sapphire. And I saw a flaming fire. And beyond these mountains Is
a region the end of the great earth: there the heavens were completed. And I saw
a deep abyss, with columns of heavenly fire, and among them I saw columns of
fire fall, which were beyond measure alike towards 12
the height and towards the depth. And beyond that abyss I saw a place which had
no firmament of the heaven above, and no firmly founded earth beneath it: there
was no water upon it, and no 13 birds, but it was
a waste and horrible place. I saw there seven stars like great burning
mountains, 14 and to me, when I inquired
regarding them, The angel said: 'This place is the end of heaven and earth: this
has become a prison for the stars and the host of heaven. And the stars which
roll over the fire are they which have transgressed the commandment of the Lord
in the beginning of 16 their rising, because they
did not come forth at their appointed times. And He was wroth with them, and
bound them till the time when their guilt should be consummated (even) for ten
thousand years.'
[Chapter 19]
1
And Uriel said to me: 'Here shall stand the angels who have connected themselves
with women, and their spirits assuming many different
forms are defiling mankind and shall lead them
astray into sacrificing to demons as gods, (here shall they stand,) till
the day of the great judgement in 2 which they
shall be judged till they are made an end of. And the women also of the angels
who 3 went astray shall become sirens.' And I, Enoch,
alone saw the vision, the ends of all things: and no man shall see as I have
seen.
[Chapter 20]
1,2
And these are the names of the holy angels who watch. Uriel, one of the holy
angels, who is 3 over the world and over Tartarus.
Raphael, one of the holy angels, who is over the spirits of men. 4,5
Raguel, one of the holy angels who takes vengeance on the
world of the luminaries. Michael, one 6 of
the holy angels, to wit, he that is set over the best part of mankind and over
chaos. Saraqael, 7 one of the holy angels, who is
set over the spirits, who sin in the spirit. Gabriel, one of the holy 8
angels, who is over Paradise and the serpents and the Cherubim. Remiel, one of
the holy angels, whom God set over those who rise.
[Chapter 21]
1,2
And I proceeded to where things were chaotic. And I saw there something
horrible: I saw neither 3 a heaven above nor a
firmly founded earth, but a place chaotic and horrible. And there I
saw 4 seven stars of the heaven bound together in
it, like great mountains and burning with fire. Then 5
I said: 'For what sin are they bound, and on what account have they been cast in
hither?' Then said Uriel, one of the holy angels, who was with me, and was chief
over them, and said: 'Enoch, why 6
dost thou ask, and why art thou eager for the truth? These are of the number of
the stars of heaven, which have transgressed the commandment of the Lord, and
are bound here till ten thousand years, 7
the time entailed by their sins, are consummated.' And from thence I went to
another place, which was still more horrible than the former, and I saw a
horrible thing: a great fire there which burnt and blazed, and the place was
cleft as far as the abyss, being full of great descending columns of 8
fire: neither its extent or magnitude could I see, nor could I conjecture. Then
I said: 'How 9 fearful is the place and how
terrible to look upon!' Then Uriel answered me, one of the holy angels who was
with me, and said unto me: 'Enoch,
why hast thou such fear and affright?' And 10 I
answered: 'Because of this fearful place, and because of the spectacle of the
pain.' And he said unto me: 'This place is the prison of the angels, and here
they will be imprisoned for ever.'
Daniel
7:23: Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.
24: And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.
25: And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.
26: But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it unto the end.
27: And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him.
28: Hitherto is the end of the matter. As for me Daniel, my cogitations much troubled me, and my countenance changed in me: but I kept the matter in my heart.
[Chapter 22]
1
And thence I went to another place, and he mountain [and] of hard rock. 2
And there was in it four hollow places, deep and wide and very smooth. How
smooth are the hollow places and deep and dark to look at. 3
Then Raphael answered, one of the holy angels who was with me, and said unto me:
'These hollow places have been created for this very purpose, that the spirits
of the souls of the dead should 4 assemble
therein, yea that all the souls of the children of men should assemble here. And
these places have been made to receive them till the day of their judgement and
till their appointed period [till the period appointed], till the great
judgement (comes) upon them.' I saw (the spirit of) a dead man making suit, 5
and his voice went forth to heaven and made suit. And I asked Raphael the angel
who was 6 with me, and I said unto him: 'This
spirit which maketh suit, whose is it, whose voice goeth forth and maketh suit
to heaven ?' 7 And he answered me saying: 'This is the spirit which went forth
from Abel, whom his brother Cain slew, and he makes his suit against him till
his seed is destroyed from the face of the earth, and his seed is annihilated
from amongst the seed of men.' 8 The I asked
regarding it, and regarding all the hollow places: 'Why is one separated from
the other?' 9 And he answered me and said unto me:
'These three have been made that the spirits of the dead might be separated. And
such a division has been make (for) the spirits of the
righteous, in which there is the bright spring of 10
water. And such has been made for sinners when they die and are buried in
the earth and judgement has not been executed on them in their 11
lifetime. Here their spirits shall be set apart in this great pain till the
great day of judgement and punishment and torment of those who curse for ever
and retribution for their spirits. There 12 He
shall bind them for ever. And such a division has been made for the spirits of
those who make their suit, who make disclosures concerning their destruction,
when they were slain in the days 13
of the sinners. Such has been made for the spirits of men who were not
righteous but sinners, who were complete in transgression, and of the
transgressors they shall be companions: but their spirits shall not be slain in
the day of judgement nor shall they be raised from thence.' 14
The I blessed the Lord of glory and said: 'Blessed be my Lord, the Lord of
righteousness, who ruleth for ever.'
[Chapter 23]
1,2
From thence I went to another place to the west of the ends of the earth. And I
saw a burning 3 fire which ran without resting,
and paused not from its course day or night but (ran) regularly. And 4
I asked saying: 'What is this which rests not?' Then Raguel, one of the holy
angels who was with me, answered me and said unto me: 'This course of fire which
thou hast seen is the fire in the west which persecutes
all the luminaries of heaven.'
[Chapter 24]
1
And from thence I went to another place of the earth, and he showed me a
mountain range of 2 fire which burnt day and
night. And I went beyond it and saw seven magnificent
mountains all differing each from the other, and the stones (thereof)
were magnificent and beautiful, magnificent as a whole, of glorious appearance
and fair exterior: three towards the east, one founded on the other, and three
towards the south, one upon the other, and deep rough ravines, no one of which 3
joined with any other. And the seventh mountain was in the midst of these, and
it excelled them 4 in height, resembling the seat
of a throne: and fragrant trees encircled the throne. And amongst them was a
tree such as I had never yet smelt, neither was any amongst them nor were others
like it: it had a fragrance beyond all fragrance, and its leaves and blooms and
wood wither not for ever: 5 and its fruit is
beautiful, and its fruit n resembles the dates of a palm. Then I said: 'How
beautiful is this tree, and fragrant, and its leaves are fair, and its blooms
very delightful in appearance.' 6 Then answered
Michael, one of the holy and honoured angels who was with me, and was their
leader.
[Chapter 25]
1
And he said unto me: 'Enoch,
why dost thou ask me regarding the fragrance of the tree, 2
and why dost thou wish to learn the truth?' Then I answered him saying: 'I wish
to 3 know about everything, but especially about
this tree.' And he answered saying: 'This high mountain which thou hast seen,
whose summit is like the throne of God, is His throne, where the Holy Great One,
the Lord of Glory, the Eternal King, will sit, when He shall come down to visit 4
the earth with goodness. And as for this fragrant tree no mortal is permitted to
touch it till the great judgement, when He shall take vengeance on all and bring
(everything) to its consummation 5 for ever. It
shall then be given to the righteous and holy. Its fruit
shall be for food to the elect: it shall be transplanted to the holy place, to
the temple of the Lord, the Eternal King.
Rv:2:7: He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.
Rv:22:2: In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
Rv:22:14: Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
6
Then shall they rejoice with joy and be glad,
And
into the holy place shall they enter;
And
its fragrance shall be in their bones,
And
they shall live a long life on earth,
Such
as thy fathers lived:
And
in their days shall no
sorrow or plague
Or
torment or calamity touch them.'
Rv:7:17: For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.
Rv:21:4: And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
7
Then blessed I the God of Glory, the Eternal King, who hath prepared such things
for the righteous, and hath created them and promised
to give to them.
Acts:2:39: For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.
Acts:13:23: Of this man's seed hath God according to his promise raised unto Israel a Saviour, Jesus:
Acts:13:32: And we declare unto you glad tidings, how that the promise which was made unto the fathers,
[Chapter 26]
1
And I went from thence to the middle of the earth, and I saw a blessed place in
which there were 2 trees with branches abiding and
blooming [of a dismembered tree]. And there I saw a holy mountain, 3
and underneath the mountain to the east there was a stream and it flowed towards
the south. And I saw towards the east another mountain higher than this, and
between them a deep and narrow 4 ravine: in it
also ran a stream underneath the mountain. And to the west thereof there was
another mountain, lower than the former and of small elevation, and a ravine
deep and dry between them: and another deep and dry ravine was at the
extremities of the three mountains. And all the ravines were deep and narrow,
(being formed) of hard rock, and trees were not planted upon 6
them. And I marveled at the rocks, and I marveled at the ravine, yea, I marveled
very much.
[Chapter 27]
1
Then said I: 'For what object is this blessed land, which is entirely filled
with trees, and this 2 accursed valley between?'
Then Uriel, one of the holy angels who was with me, answered and said: 'This
accursed valley is for those who are accursed for ever: Here shall all the
accursed be gathered together who
utter with their lips against the Lord unseemly words and of His glory
speak hard things. Here shall they be gathered together, and here 3
shall be their place of judgement. In the last
days there shall be upon
them the spectacle of righteous judgement in the presence of the righteous for
ever: here shall the merciful bless the Lord of glory, the Eternal King. 4
In the days of judgement
over the former, they shall bless Him for the mercy in accordance with 5
which He has assigned them (their lot).' Then I blessed the Lord of Glory and
set forth His glory and lauded Him gloriously.
Jn:12:48: He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.
Mt:10:33: But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven.
[Chapter 28]
1
And thence I went towards the east, into the midst of the mountain range of the
desert, and 2 I saw a wilderness and it was
solitary, full of trees and plants. And water gushed forth from 3
above. Rushing like a copious watercourse [which flowed] towards the north-west
it caused clouds and dew to ascend on every side.
[Chapter 29]
1
And thence I went to another place in the desert, and approached to the east of
this mountain 2 range. And there I saw aromatic
trees exhaling the fragrance of frankincense and myrrh, and the trees also were
similar to the almond tree.
[Chapter 30]
1,2
And beyond these, I went afar to the east, and I saw another place, a valley
(full) of water. And 3 therein there was a tree,
the colour (?) of fragrant trees such as the mastic. And on the sides of those
valleys I saw fragrant cinnamon. And beyond these I proceeded to the east.
[Chapter 31]
1
And I saw other mountains, and amongst them were groves of trees, and there
flowed forth from 2 them nectar, which is named
sarara and galbanum. And beyond these mountains I saw another mountain to the
east of the ends of the earth, whereon were aloe-trees, and all the trees were
full 3 of stacte, being like almond-trees. And
when one burnt it, it smelt sweeter than any fragrant odour.
[Chapter 32]
1
And after these fragrant odours, as I looked towards the north over the
mountains I saw seven mountains full of choice nard and fragrant trees and
cinnamon and pepper. 2 And thence I went over the
summits of all these mountains, far towards the east of the earth, and passed
above the Erythraean sea and went far from it, and passed over the angel Zotiel.
And I came to the Garden of Righteousness, 3 I and
from afar off trees more numerous than I these trees and great-two trees there,
very great, beautiful, and glorious, and magnificent, and the tree of knowledge,
whose holy fruit they eat and know great wisdom. 4
That tree is in height like the fir, and its leaves are like (those of) the
Carob tree: and its fruit 5 is like the clusters
of the vine, very beautiful: and the fragrance of the tree penetrates afar. Then
6 I said: 'How beautiful is the tree, and how
attractive is its look!' Then Raphael the holy angel, who
was with me, answered me and said: 'This is the tree of wisdom, of which thy
father old (in years) and thy aged mother, who were before thee, have eaten, and
they learnt wisdom and their eyes were opened, and they knew that they were
naked and they were driven out of the garden.'
Gen:2:9: And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
Gen:2:16: And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
Gen:2:17: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
BOOK OF ENOCH
From-The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha
of the Old Testament
H.R. Charles Oxford: The Clarendon Press
Section II. Chapters XXXVII-LXXI
The Parables
[Chapter 37]
1
The second vision which he saw, the vision of wisdom -which Enoch the son of
Jared, the son 2 of Mahalalel, the son of Cainan,
the son of Enos, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, saw. And this is the
beginning of the words of wisdom which I lifted up my voice to speak and say to
those which dwell on earth: Hear, ye men of old time, and see, ye that come
after, the words of the Holy 3 One which I will
speak before the Lord of Spirits. It were better to declare (them only) to the
men of old time, but even from those that come after we will not withhold the
beginning of wisdom. 4 Till the present day such
wisdom has never been given by the Lord of Spirits as I have received according
to my insight, according to the good pleasure of the Lord of Spirits by whom the
lot of 5 eternal life has been given to me. Now
three Parables were imparted to me, and I lifted up my voice and recounted them
to those that dwell on the earth.
[Chapter 38]
1
The first Parable.
When
the congregation of the righteous shall appear,
And
sinners shall be judged for their sins,
And
shall be driven from the face of the earth:
2
And when the Righteous One shall appear before the eyes of the righteous,
Whose
elect works hang upon the Lord of Spirits,
And
light shall appear to the righteous and the elect who dwell on the earth,
Where
then will be the dwelling of the sinners,
And
where the resting-place of those who have denied the Lord of Spirits?
It
had been good for them if they had not been born.
3
When the secrets of the righteous shall be revealed and the sinners judged,
And
the godless driven from the presence of the righteous and elect,
4
From that time those that possess the earth shall no longer be powerful and
exalted:
And
they shall not be able to behold the face of the holy,
For
the Lord of Spirits has caused His light to appear
On
the face of the holy, righteous, and elect.
Rv:20:15: And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
5
Then shall the kings and the mighty perish
And
be given into the hands of the righteous and holy.
6
And thenceforward none shall seek for themselves mercy from the Lord of Spirits
For
their life is at an end.
Rev.
6:15: And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains;
16: And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:
17: For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?
[Chapter 39]
1
[And it shall come to pass in those days that elect and holy children will
descend from the 2 high heaven, and their seed
will become one with the children of men. And in those days Enoch received books
of zeal and wrath, and books of disquiet and expulsion.]
Rv:20:4: And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands;
and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
2Pt:3:13: Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
Rv:21:1: And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.
Hebrew 12:19: And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more:
20: (For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart:
21: And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:)
22: But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,
23: To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
24: And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.
And
mercy shall not be accorded to them, saith the Lord of Spirits.
3
And in those days a whirlwind carried me off from the earth,
And
set me down at the end of the heavens.
4
And there I saw another vision, the dwelling-places of the holy,
And
the resting-places of the righteous.
5
Here mine eyes saw their dwellings with His righteous angels,
And
their resting-places with the holy.
And
they petitioned and interceded and prayed for the children of men,
And
righteousness flowed before them as water,
And
mercy like dew upon the earth:
Thus
it is amongst them for ever and ever.
Hebrew
12:22: But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,
23: To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
24: And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.
25: See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:
26: Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.
27: And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.
28: Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:
29: For our God is a consuming fire.
6a
And in that place mine eyes saw the Elect One of righteousness and of faith,
7a
And I saw his dwelling-place under the wings of the Lord of Spirits.
6b
And righteousness shall prevail in his days,
And
the righteous and elect shall be without number before Him for ever and ever.
7b
And all the righteous and elect before Him shall be strong as fiery lights,
And
their mouth shall be full of blessing,
And
their lips extol the name of the Lord of Spirits,
And
righteousness before Him shall never fail,
[And
uprightness shall never fail before Him.]
8
There I wished to dwell,
And
my spirit longed for that dwelling-place:
And
there heretofore hath been my portion,
For
so has it been established concerning me before the Lord of Spirits.
Rev. 22:1: And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.
2: In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
3: And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him:
4: And they shall see his face; and his name shall be in their foreheads.
5: And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever.
6: And he said unto me, These sayings are faithful and true: and the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his angel to shew unto his servants the things which must shortly be done.
7: Behold, I come quickly: blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book.
8: And I John saw these things, and heard them. And when I had heard and seen, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel which shewed me these things.
9: Then saith he unto me, See thou do it not: for I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of this book: worship God.
10: And he saith unto me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand.
11: He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.
12: And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.
13: I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.
14: Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
15: For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
16: I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches.
I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.
17: And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.
18: For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:
19: And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.
20: He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
21: The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.
9
In those days I praised and extolled the name of the Lord of Spirits with
blessings and praises, because He hath destined me for blessing and glory
according to the good pleasure of the Lord of 10
Spirits. For a long time my eyes regarded that place, and I blessed Him and
praised Him, saying: 'Blessed is He, and may He be blessed from the beginning
and for evermore. And before Him there is no ceasing. He knows before the world
was created what is for ever and what will be from 12
generation unto generation. Those who sleep not bless Thee: they stand before
Thy glory and bless, praise, and extol, saying: "Holy, holy, holy, is the
Lord of Spirits: He filleth the earth with 13
spirits."' And here my eyes saw all those who sleep not: they stand before
Him and bless and say: 'Blessed be Thou, and blessed be the name of the Lord for
ever and ever.' And my face was changed; for I could no longer behold.
[Chapter 40]
1
And after that I saw thousands of thousands and ten thousand times ten thousand,
I saw a multitude 2 beyond number and reckoning,
who stood before the Lord of Spirits.
Rv:5:11: And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands;
And
on the four sides of the Lord of Spirits I saw four presences, different from
those that sleep not, and I learnt their names: for the angel that went with me
made known to me their names, and showed me all the hidden things. 3
And I heard the voices of those four presences as they uttered praises before
the Lord of glory. 4,5 The
first voice blesses the Lord of Spirits for ever and ever. And the second voice
I heard blessing 6 the Elect One and the elect
ones who hang upon the Lord of Spirits.
Rv:4:7: And the first beast was like a lion, and the second beast like a calf, and the third beast had a face as a man, and the fourth beast was like a flying eagle.
Rv:4:8: And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.
Rv:4:9: And when those beasts give glory and honour and thanks to him that sat on the throne, who liveth for ever and ever,
Rv:5:6: And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.
Rv:5:8: And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints.
And
the third voice I heard pray and intercede for those who dwell on the earth and
supplicate in the name of the Lord of Spirits. 7
And I heard the fourth voice fending off the Satans and forbidding them to come
before the Lord 8 of Spirits to accuse them who
dwell on the earth. After that I asked the angel of peace who went with me, who
showed me everything that is hidden: 'Who are these four presences which I have 9
seen and whose words I have heard and written down?' And he said to me: 'This
first is Michael, the merciful and long-suffering: and the second, who is set
over all the diseases and all the wounds of the children of men, is Raphael: and
the third, who is set over all the powers, is Gabriel: and the fourth, who is
set over the repentance unto hope of those who inherit eternal life, is named
Phanuel.' 10 And these are the four angels of the
Lord of Spirits and the four voices I heard in those days.
[Chapter 41]
1
And after that I saw all the secrets of the heavens, and how the kingdom is
divided, and how the 2 actions of men are weighed
in the balance. And there I saw the mansions of the elect and the mansions of
the holy, and mine eyes saw there all the sinners being driven from thence which
deny the name of the Lord of Spirits, and being dragged off: and they could not
abide because of the punishment which proceeds from the Lord of Spirits.
Jn:14:2: In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
3
And there mine eyes saw the secrets of the lightning and of the thunder, and the
secrets of the winds, how they are divided to blow over the earth, and the
secrets of the clouds and dew, and there 4 I saw
from whence they proceed in that place and from whence they saturate the dusty
earth. And there I saw closed chambers out of which the winds are divided, the
chamber of the hail and winds, the chamber of the mist, and of the clouds, and
the cloud thereof hovers over the earth from the 5
beginning of the world. And I saw the chambers of the sun and moon, whence they
proceed and whither they come again, and their glorious return, and how one is
superior to the other, and their stately orbit, and how they do not leave their
orbit, and they add nothing to their orbit and they take nothing from it, and
they keep faith with each other, in accordance with the oath by which they 6
are bound together. And first the sun goes forth and traverses his path
according to the commandment 7 of the Lord of
Spirits, and mighty is His name for ever and ever. And after that I saw the
hidden and the visible path of the moon, and she accomplishes the course of her
path in that place by day and by night-the one holding a position opposite to
the other before the Lord of Spirits.
And
they give thanks and praise and rest not;
For
unto them is their thanksgiving rest.
8
For the sun changes oft for a blessing or a curse,
And
the course of the path of the moon is light to the righteous
And
darkness to the sinners in the name of the Lord,
Who
made a separation between the light and the darkness,
And
divided the spirits of men,
And
strengthened the spirits of the righteous,
In
the name of His righteousness.
9
For no angel hinders and no power is able to hinder; for He appoints a judge for
them all and He judges them all before Him.
[Chapter 42]
1
Wisdom found no place where she might dwell;
Then
a dwelling-place was assigned her in the heavens.
2
Wisdom went forth to make her dwelling among the children of men,
And
found no dwelling-place:
Wisdom
returned to her place,
And
took her seat among the angels.
3
And unrighteousness went forth from her chambers:
Whom
she sought not she found,
And
dwelt with them,
As
rain in a desert
And
dew on a thirsty land.
[Chapter 43]
1
And I saw other lightnings and the stars of heaven, and I saw how He called them
all by their 2 names and they hearkened unto Him.
And I saw how they are weighed in a righteous balance according to their
proportions of light: (I saw) the width of their spaces and the day of their
appearing, and how their revolution produces lightning: and (I saw) their
revolution according to the 3 number of the
angels, and (how) they keep faith with each other. And I asked the angel who
went 4 with me who showed me what was hidden:
'What are these?' And he said to me: 'The Lord of Spirits hath showed thee their
parabolic meaning (lit. 'their parable'): these are the names of the holy who
dwell on the earth and believe in the name of the Lord of Spirits for ever and
ever.'
[Chapter 44]
Also
another phenomenon I saw in regard to the lightnings: how some of the stars
arise and become lightnings and cannot part with their new form.
[Chapter 45]
1
And this is the second Parable concerning those who deny the name of the
dwelling of the holy ones and the Lord of Spirits.
2
And into the heaven they shall not ascend,
And
on the earth they shall not come:
Such
shall be the lot of the sinners
Who
have denied the name of the Lord of Spirits,
Who
are thus preserved for the day of suffering and tribulation.
3
On that day Mine Elect One shall sit on the throne of
glory
And
shall try their works,
And
their places of rest shall be innumerable.
Mt:26:64: Jesus saith unto him, Thou hast said: nevertheless I say unto you, Hereafter shall ye see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven.
And
their souls shall grow strong within them when they see
Mine Elect Ones,
And
those who have called upon My glorious name:
4
Then will I cause Mine Elect One to dwell among them.
Rv:21:22: And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it.
And
I will transform the heaven and make it an eternal blessing and light
5
And I will transform the earth and make it a blessing:
Rv:21:1: And I saw a new heaven and a new earth:
for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.
And
I will cause Mine elect ones to dwell upon it:
But
the sinners and evil-doers shall not set foot thereon.
6
For I have provided and satisfied with peace My righteous ones
And
have caused them to dwell before Me:
But
for the sinners there is judgement impending with Me,
So
that I shall destroy them from the face of the earth.
Rv:17:8: The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.
[Chapter 46]
1
And there I saw One who had a head of days,
And
His head was white like wool,
And
with Him was another being whose countenance had the appearance of a man,
Rv:5:6: And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.
Rv:5:8: And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints.
Rv:5:12: Saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing.
Rv:5:13: And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever.
And
his face was full of graciousness, like one of the holy angels.
2
And I asked the angel who went with me and showed me all the hidden things,
concerning that
3
Son of Man, who he was, and whence he was, (and) why he went with the Head of
Days? And he answered and said unto me:
This
is the son of Man who hath righteousness,
With
whom dwelleth righteousness,
And
who revealeth all the treasures of that which is hidden,
Because
the Lord of Spirits hath chosen him,
And
whose lot hath the pre-eminence before the Lord of Spirits in uprightness for
ever.
4
And this Son of Man whom thou
hast seen
Shall
raise up the kings and the mighty from their seats,
[And
the strong from their thrones]
And
shall loosen the reins of the strong,
And
break the teeth of the sinners.
Mt:8:12: But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Mt:13:42: And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
5
[And he shall put down the kings from their thrones and kingdoms]
Because
they do not extol and praise Him,
Nor
humbly acknowledge whence the kingdom was bestowed upon them.
6
And he shall put down the countenance of the strong,
And
shall fill them with shame.
Rv:16:14: For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.
And
darkness shall be their dwelling,
And
worms shall be their bed,
And
they shall have no hope of rising from their beds,
Because
they do not extol the name of the Lord of Spirits.
[And
raise their hands against the Most High],
And
tread upon the earth and dwell upon it.
And
all their deeds manifest unrighteousness,
And
their power rests upon their riches,
And
their faith is in the gods which they have made with their hands,
And
they deny the name of the Lord of Spirits,
Rv:18:3: For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
Rv:18:9: And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning,
Rv:19:18: That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great.
Rv:19:19: And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army.
8
And they persecute the houses of His congregations,
And
the faithful who hang upon the name of the Lord of Spirits.
Rv:20:4: And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
"It
is our duty to force all mankind to accept the seven Noahide laws, and
if not—they will be killed." (Rabbi Yitzhak Ginsburg,
Ma'ariv, October 6, 2004) ...
[Chapter 47]
1
And in those days shall have ascended the prayer of the righteous,
And
the blood of the righteous from the earth before the Lord of Spirits.
Rv:5:8: And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints.
Rv:8:3: And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne.
Rv:8:4: And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel's hand.
2
In those days the holy ones who dwell above in the heavens
Shall
unite with one voice
And
supplicate and pray [and praise,
And
give thanks and bless the name of the Lord of Spirits
On
behalf of the blood of the righteous which has been shed,
Rv:16:6: For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.
And
that the prayer of the righteous may not be in vain before the Lord of Spirits,
That
judgement may be done unto them,
And
that they may not have to suffer for ever.
3
In those days I saw the Head of Days when He seated himself upon the throne of
His glory,
And
the books of the living were opened before Him:
And
all His host which is in heaven above and His counselors stood before Him,
Rv:3:5: He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.
4
And the hearts of the holy were filled with joy;
Because
the number of the righteous had been offered,
And
the prayer of the righteous had been heard,
And
the blood of the righteous been required before the Lord of Spirits.
Ps:50:5: Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.
Ps:116:15: Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints.
Rv:20:4: And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
22: But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,
23: To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
24: And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.
[Chapter 48]
1
And in that place I saw the fountain of righteousness
Which
was inexhaustible:
And
around it were many fountains of wisdom:
And
all the thirsty drank of them,
Rv:7:17: For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.
Rv:22:17: And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.
And
were filled with wisdom,
And
their dwellings were with the righteous and holy and elect.
2
And at that hour that Son of Man was named In the presence of the Lord of
Spirits,
And
his name before the Head of Days.
3
Yea, before the sun and the signs were created,
Before
the stars of the heaven were made,
His
name was named before the Lord of Spirits.
John 1:1: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2: The same was in the beginning with God.
3: All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
4: In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
5: And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
4
He shall be a staff to the righteous whereon to stay themselves and not fall,
And
he shall be the light of the Gentiles,
And
the hope of those who are troubled of heart.
Lk:2:32: A light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel.
5
All who dwell on earth shall fall down and worship before him,
And
will praise and bless and celebrate with song the Lord of Spirits.
Rom:14:11: For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.
Phil:2:10: That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;
6
And for this reason hath he been chosen and hidden before Him,
Before
the creation of the world and for evermore.
7
And the wisdom of the Lord of Spirits hath revealed him to the holy and
righteous;
For
he hath preserved the lot of the righteous,
Because
they have hated and despised this world of unrighteousness,
And
have hated all its works and ways in the name of the Lord of Spirits:
For
in his name they are saved,
And
according to his good pleasure hath it been in regard to their life.
Mt:10:22: And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.
8
In these days downcast in countenance shall the kings of the earth have become,
And
the strong who possess the land because of the works of their hands,
For
on the day of their anguish and affliction they shall not (be able to) save
themselves.
And
I will give them over into the hands of Mine elect:
Daniel
7:27: And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him.
28: Hitherto is the end of the matter. As for me Daniel, my cogitations much troubled me, and my countenance changed in me: but I kept the matter in my heart.
9As
straw in the fire so shall they burn before the face of the holy:
As
lead in the water shall they sink before the face of the righteous,
And
no trace of them shall any more be found.
10
And on the day of their affliction there shall be rest on the earth,
And
before them they shall fall and not rise again:
And
there shall be no one to take them with his hands and raise them:
For
they have denied the Lord of Spirits and His Anointed.
The
name of the Lord of Spirits be blessed.
Mt:10:33: But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven.
[Chapter 49]
l
For wisdom is poured out like water,
And
glory faileth not before him for evermore.
2
For he is mighty in all the secrets of righteousness,
And
unrighteousness shall disappear as a shadow,
And
have no continuance;
Because
the Elect One standeth before the Lord of Spirits,
And
his glory is for ever and ever,
And
his might unto all generations.
3
And in him dwells the spirit of wisdom,
And
the spirit which gives insight,
And
the spirit of understanding and of might,
And
the spirit of those who have fallen asleep in righteousness.
4
And he shall judge the secret things,
And
none shall be able to utter a lying word before him;
For
he is the Elect One before the Lord of Spirits
according to His good pleasure.
[Chapter 50]
1
And in those days a change shall take place for the holy and elect,
And
the light of days shall abide upon them,
And
glory and honour shall turn to the holy,
2
On the day of affliction on which evil shall have been treasured up against the
sinners.
And
the righteous shall be victorious in
the name of the Lord of Spirits:
And
He will cause the others to witness (this)
That
they may repent
And
forgo the works of their hands.
Rv:9:20: And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:
Rv:9:21: Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.
3
They shall have no honour through the name of the Lord of Spirits,
Yet
through His name shall they be saved,
And
the Lord of Spirits will have compassion on them,
For
His compassion is great.
Rv:11:13: And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand:
and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven.
4
And He is righteous also in His judgement,
And
in the presence of His glory unrighteousness also shall not maintain itself:
At
His judgement the unrepentant shall perish before
Him.
5
And from henceforth I will have no mercy on them, saith the Lord of Spirits.
[Chapter 51]
1
And in those days shall the earth also give back that which has been entrusted
to it,
And
Sheol also shall give back that which it has received,
And
hell shall give back that which it owes.
5a
For in those days the Elect One shall arise,
2
And he shall choose the righteous and holy from among them:
For
the day has drawn nigh that they should be saved.
3
And the Elect One shall in those days sit on My throne,
And
his mouth shall pour forth all the secrets of wisdom and counsel:
For
the Lord of Spirits hath given (them) to him and hath glorified him.
Mt:25:31: When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:
4
And in those days shall the mountains leap like rams,
And
the hills also shall skip like lambs satisfied with milk,
And
the faces of [all] the angels in heaven shall be lighted up with joy.
5b
And the earth shall rejoice,
c
And the righteous shall dwell upon it,
d
And the elect shall walk thereon.
[Chapter 52]
l
And after those days in that place where I had seen all the visions of that
which is hidden -for 2 I had been carried off in a
whirlwind and they had borne me towards the west-There mine eyes saw all the
secret things of heaven that shall be, a mountain of iron, and a mountain of
copper, and a mountain of silver, and a mountain of gold, and a mountain of soft
metal, and a mountain of lead. 3 And I asked the
angel who went with me, saying, 'What things are these which I have seen in 4
secret?' And he said unto me: 'All these things which thou hast seen shall serve
the dominion of His Anointed that he may be potent and mighty on the earth.' 5
And that angel of peace answered, saying unto me: 'Wait a little, and there
shall be revealed unto thee all the secret things which surround the Lord of
Spirits.
6
And these mountains which thine eyes have seen,
The
mountain of iron, and the mountain of copper, and the mountain of silver,
And
the mountain of gold, and the mountain of soft metal, and the mountain of lead,
All
these shall be in the presence of the Elect One
As
wax: before the fire,
And
like the water which streams down from above [upon those mountains],
And
they shall become powerless before his feet.
7
And it shall come to pass in those days that none shall be saved,
Either
by gold or by silver,
And
none be able to escape.
Nohides
8
And there shall be no iron for war,
Nor
shall one clothe oneself with a breastplate.
Bronze
shall be of no service,
And
tin [shall be of no service and] shall not be esteemed,
And
lead shall not be desired.
9
And all these things shall be [denied and] destroyed from the surface of the
earth,
When
the Elect One shall appear before the face of the Lord of Spirits.'
[Chapter 53]
1
There mine eyes saw a deep valley with open mouths, and all who dwell on the
earth and sea and islands shall bring to him gifts and presents and tokens of
homage, but that deep valley shall not become full.
2
And their hands commit lawless deeds,
And
the sinners devour all whom they lawlessly oppress:
Yet
the sinners shall be destroyed before the face of the Lord of Spirits,
And
they shall be banished from off the face of His earth,
And
they shall perish for ever and ever.
3
For I saw all the angels of punishment abiding (there) and preparing all the
instruments of Satan. 4 And I asked the angel of
peace who went with me: ' For whom are they preparing these Instruments?' 5
And he said unto me: ' They prepare these for the kings and the mighty of this
earth, that they may thereby be destroyed. 6 And
after this the Righteous and Elect One shall cause the house of his congregation
to appear: henceforth they shall be no more hindered in the name of the Lord of
Spirits.
Jesus the name above every name
7
And these mountains shall not stand as the earth before his righteousness,
But
the hills shall be as a fountain of water,
And
the righteous shall have rest from the oppression of sinners.'
[Chapter 54]
1
And I looked and turned to another part of the earth, and saw there a deep
valley with burning 2 fire. And they brought the
kings and the mighty, and began to cast them into this deep valley. 3
And there mine eyes saw how they made these their instruments, iron chains of
immeasurable weight. 4 And I asked the angel of
peace who went with me, saying: ' For whom are these chains being prepared ? '
And he said unto me: ' These are being prepared for the hosts of Azazel, so that
they may take them and cast them into the abyss of complete condemnation, and
they shall cover their jaws with rough stones as the Lord of Spirits commanded. 6
And Michael, and Gabriel, and Raphael, and Phanuel shall take hold of them on
that great day, and cast them on that day into the burning furnace, that the
Lord of Spirits may take vengeance on them for their unrighteousness in becoming
subject to Satan and leading astray those who dwell on the earth.' 7
And in those days shall punishment come from the Lord of Spirits, and he will
open all the chambers of waters which are above the heavens, and of the
fountains which are beneath the earth. 8 And all
the waters shall be joined with the waters: that which is above the heavens is
the masculine, 9 and the water which is beneath
the earth is the feminine. And they shall destroy all who dwell 10
on the earth and those who dwell under the ends of the heaven. And when they
have recognized their unrighteousness which they have wrought on the earth, then
by these shall they perish.
Daniel
7:23: Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.
24: And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.
25: And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.
26: But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it unto the end.
27: And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him.
28: Hitherto is the end of the matter. As for me Daniel, my cogitations much troubled me, and my countenance changed in me: but I kept the matter in my heart.
[Chapter 55]
1
And after that the Head of Days repented and said: ' In vain have I destroyed
all who dwell 2 on the earth.' And He sware by His
great name: ' Henceforth I will not do so to all who dwell on the earth, and I
will set a sign in the heaven: and this shall be a pledge of good faith between
Me and them for ever, so long as heaven is above the earth. And this is in
accordance with My command. 3 When I have desired
to take hold of them by the hand of the angels on the day of tribulation and
pain because of this, I will cause My chastisement and My wrath to abide upon
them, saith 4 God, the Lord of Spirits. Ye mighty
kings who dwell on the earth, ye shall have to behold Mine Elect One, how he
sits on the throne of glory and judges Azazel, and all his associates, and all
his hosts in the name of the Lord of Spirits.'
Matthew
24:21: For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
[Chapter 56]
1
And I saw there the hosts of the angels of punishment going, and they held
scourges and chains 2 of iron and bronze. And I
asked the angel of peace who went with me, saying: ' To whom are 3
these who hold the scourges going ? ' And he said unto me: ' To their elect and
beloved ones, that they may be cast into the chasm of the abyss of the valley.
4
And then that valley shall be filled with their elect and beloved,
And
the days of their lives shall be at an end,
And
the days of their leading astray shall not thenceforward be reckoned.
5
And in those days the angels shall return
And
hurl themselves to the east upon the Parthians and Medes:
Persia Iran and Iraq
They
shall stir up the kings, so that a spirit of unrest shall come upon them,
And
they shall rouse them from their thrones,
That
they may break forth as lions from their lairs,
And
as hungry wolves among their flocks.
6
And they shall go up and tread under foot the land of His elect ones
[And
the land of His elect ones shall be before them a threshing-floor and a highway
:]
7
But the city of my righteous shall be a hindrance to their horses.
And
they shall begin to fight among themselves,
And
their right hand shall be strong against themselves,
And
a man shall not know his brother,
Nor
a son his father or his mother,
Till
there be no number of the corpses through their slaughter,
And
their punishment be not in vain.
8
In those days Sheol shall open its jaws,
And
they shall be swallowed up therein
And
their destruction shall be at an end;
Sheol
shall devour the sinners in the presence of the elect.'
[Chapter 57]
1
And it came to pass after this that I saw another host of wagons, and men riding
thereon, and 2 coming on the winds from the east,
and from the west to the south. And the noise of their wagons was heard, and
when this turmoil took place the holy ones from heaven remarked it, and the
pillars of the earth were moved from their place, and the sound thereof was
heard from the one end of heaven 3 to the other,
in one day. And they shall all fall down and worship the Lord of Spirits. And
this is the end of the second Parable.
[Chapter 58]
1
And I began to speak the third Parable concerning the righteous and elect.
2
Blessed are ye, ye righteous and elect,
For
glorious shall be your lot.
3
And the righteous shall be in the light of the sun.
And
the elect in the light of eternal life:
The
days of their life shall be unending,
And
the days of the holy without number.
4
And they shall seek the light and find righteousness with the Lord of Spirits:
There
shall be peace to the righteous in the name of the Eternal Lord.
5
And after this it shall be said to the holy in heaven
That
they should seek out the secrets of righteousness, the heritage of faith:
For
it has become bright as the sun upon earth,
And
the darkness is past.
6
And there shall be a light that never endeth,
And
to a limit (lit. ' number ') of days they shall not come,
For
the darkness shall first have been destroyed,
[And
the light established before the Lord of Spirits]
And
the light of uprightness established for ever before the Lord of Spirits.
[Chapter 59]
1
[In those days mine eyes saw the secrets of the lightnings, and of the lights,
and the judgements they execute (lit. ' their judgement '): and they lighten for
a blessing or a curse as the Lord of 2 Spirits
willeth. And there I saw the secrets of the thunder, and how when it resounds
above in the heaven, the sound thereof is heard, and he caused me to see the
judgements executed on the earth, whether they be for well-being and blessing,
or for a curse according to the word of the Lord of Spirits. 3
And after that all the secrets of the lights and lightnings were shown to me,
and they lighten for blessing and for satisfying.]
[Chapter 60] A Fragment of the Book
of Noah
1
In the year 500, in the seventh month, on the fourteenth day of the month in the
life of Enoch. In that Parable I saw how a mighty quaking made the heaven of
heavens to quake, and the host of the Most High, and the angels, a thousand
thousands and ten thousand times ten thousand, were 2
disquieted with a great disquiet. And the Head of Days sat on the throne of His
glory, and the angels and the righteous stood around Him.
3
And a great trembling seized me,
And
fear took hold of me,
And
my loins gave way,
And
dissolved were my reins,
And
I fell upon my face.
4
And Michael sent another angel from among the holy ones and he raised me up, and
when he had raised me up my spirit returned; for I had not been able to endure
the look of this host, and the 5 commotion and the
quaking of the heaven. And Michael said unto me: ' Why art thou disquieted with
such a vision? Until this day lasted the day of His mercy; and He hath been
merciful and 6 long-suffering towards those who
dwell on the earth. And when the day, and the power, and the punishment, and the
judgement come, which the Lord of Spirits hath prepared for those who worship
not the righteous law, and for those who deny the righteous judgement, and for
those who take His name in vain-that day is prepared, for the elect a covenant,
but for sinners an inquisition. 25 When the
punishment of the Lord of Spirits shall rest upon them, it shall rest in order
that the punishment of the Lord of Spirits may not come, in vain, and it shall
slay the children with their mothers and the children with their fathers.
Afterwards the judgement shall take place according to His mercy and His
patience.' 7 And on that day were two monsters
parted, a female monster named Leviathan, to dwell in the 8
abysses of the ocean over the fountains of the waters. But the male is named
Behemoth, who occupied with his breast a waste wilderness named Duidain, on the
east of the garden where the elect and righteous dwell, where my grandfather was
taken up, the seventh from Adam, the first 9 man
whom the Lord of Spirits created. And I besought the other angel that he should
show me the might of those monsters, how they were parted on one day and cast,
the one into the abysses 10
of the sea, and the other unto the dry land of the wilderness. And he said to
me: ' Thou son of man, herein thou dost seek to know what is hidden.' 11
And the other angel who went with me and showed me what was hidden told me what
is first and last in the heaven in the height, and beneath the earth in the
depth, and at the ends of the 12 heaven, and on
the foundation of the heaven. And the chambers of the winds, and how the winds
are divided, and how they are weighed, and (how) the portals of the winds are
reckoned, each according to the power of the wind, and the power of the lights
of the moon, and according to the power that is fitting: and the divisions of
the stars according to their names, and how all the divisions 13
are divided. And the thunders according to the places where they fall, and all
the divisions that are made among the lightnings that it may lighten, and their
host that they may at once obey. 14 For the
thunder has places of rest (which) are assigned (to it) while it is waiting for
its peal; and the thunder and lightning are inseparable, and although not one
and undivided, they both go together 15 through
the spirit and separate not. For when the lightning lightens, the thunder utters
its voice, and the spirit enforces a pause during the peal, and divides equally
between them; for the treasury of their peals is like the sand, and each one of
them as it peals is held in with a bridle, and turned back by the power of the
spirit, and pushed forward according to the many quarters of the earth. 16
And the spirit of the sea is masculine and strong, and according to the might of
his strength he draws it back with a rein, and in like manner it is driven
forward and disperses amid all the mountains 17
of the earth. And the spirit of the hoar-frost is his own angel, and the spirit
of the hail is a good 18 angel. And the spirit of
the snow has forsaken his chambers on account of his strength -There is a
special spirit therein, and that which ascends from it is like smoke, and its
name is frost. And the spirit of the mist is not united with them in their
chambers, but it has a special chamber; for its course is glorious both in light
and in darkness, and in winter and in summer, and in its chamber is an angel. 19
And the spirit of the dew has its dwelling at the ends of the heaven, and is
connected with the chambers of the rain, and its course is in winter and summer:
and its clouds and the clouds of the 20 mist are
connected, and the one gives to the other. And when the spirit of the rain goes
forth from its chamber, the angels come and open the chamber and lead it out,
and when it is diffused over the whole earth it unites with the water on the
earth. And whensoever it unites with the water on 21
the earth . . . For the waters are for those who dwell on the earth; for they
are nourishment for the earth from the Most High who is in heaven: therefore
there is a measure for the rain, 22, and the
angels take it in charge. And these things I saw towards the Garden of the
Righteous. 23 And the angel of peace who was with
me said to me: ' These two monsters, prepared conformably to the greatness of
God, shall feed . . .
[Chapter 61]
1
And I saw in those days how long cords were given to those angels, and they took
to themselves wings and flew, and they went towards the north. 2
And I asked the angel, saying unto him: ' Why have those (angels) taken these
cords and gone off ? ' And he said unto me: ' They have gone to measure.'
3
And the angel who went with me said unto me:
'
These shall bring the measures of the righteous,
And
the ropes of the righteous to the righteous,
That
they may stay themselves on the name of the Lord of Spirits for ever and ever.
4
The elect shall begin to dwell with the elect,
And
those are the measures which shall be given to faith
And
which shall strengthen righteousness.
5
And these measures shall reveal all the secrets of the depths of the earth,
And
those who have been destroyed by the desert,
And
those who have been devoured by the beasts,
And
those who have been devoured by the fish of the sea,
That
they may return and stay themselves
On
the day of the Elect One;
For
none shall be destroyed before the Lord of Spirits,
And
none can be destroyed.
6
And all who dwell above in the heaven received a command and power and one voice
and one light like unto fire.
7
And that One (with) their first words they blessed,
And
extolled and lauded with wisdom,
And
they were wise in utterance and in the spirit of life.
8
And the Lord of Spirits placed the Elect one on the throne of glory.
And
he shall judge all the works of the holy above in the heaven,
And
in the balance shall their deeds be weighed
9
And when he shall lift up his countenance
To
judge their secret ways according to the word of the name of the Lord of
Spirits,
And
their path according to the way of the righteous judgement of the Lord of
Spirits,
Then
shall they all with one voice speak and bless,
And
glorify and extol and sanctify the name of the Lord of Spirits.
10
And He will summon all the host of the heavens, and all the holy ones above, and
the host of God, the Cherubic, Seraphin and Ophannin, and all the angels of
power, and all the angels of principalities, and the Elect
One, and the other
powers on the earth (and) over the water On that day shall raise one voice, and
bless and glorify and exalt in the spirit of faith, and in the spirit of wisdom,
and in the spirit of patience, and in the spirit of mercy, and in the spirit of
judgement and of peace, and in the spirit of goodness, and shall all say with
one voice: " Blessed is He, and may the name of the Lord of Spirits be
blessed for ever and ever."
12
All who sleep not above in heaven shall bless Him:
All
the holy ones who are in heaven shall bless Him,
And
all the elect who dwell in the garden of life:
And
every spirit of light who is able to bless, and glorify, and extol, and hallow
Thy blessed name,
And
all flesh shall beyond measure glorify and bless Thy name for ever and ever.
13
For great is the mercy of the Lord of Spirits, and He is long-suffering,
And
all His works and all that He has created He has revealed to the righteous and
elect
In
the name of the Lord of Spirits.
[Chapter 62]
1
And thus the Lord commanded the kings and the mighty and the exalted, and those
who dwell on the earth, and said:
'
Open your eyes and lift up your horns if ye are able to recognize the Elect
One.'
2
And the Lord of Spirits seated him on the throne of His glory,
And
the spirit of righteousness was poured out upon him,
And
the word of his mouth slays all the sinners,
And
all the unrighteous are destroyed from before his face.
3
And there shall stand up in that day all the kings and the mighty,
And
the exalted and those who hold the earth,
And
they shall see and recognize How he sits on the throne of his glory,
And
righteousness is judged before him,
And
no lying word is spoken before him.
4
Then shall pain come upon them as on a woman in travail,
[And
she has pain in bringing forth]
When
her child enters the mouth of the womb,
And
she has pain in bringing forth.
5
And one portion of them shall look on the other,
And
they shall be terrified,
And
they shall be downcast of countenance,
And
pain shall seize them,
When
they see that Son of Man Sitting on the throne of his glory.
6
And the kings and the mighty and all who possess the earth shall bless and
glorify and extol him who rules over all, who was hidden.
7
For from the beginning the Son of Man was hidden,
And
the Most High preserved him in the presence of His might,
And
revealed him to the elect.
8
And the congregation of the elect and holy shall be sown,
And
all the elect shall stand before him on that day.
9
And all the kings and the mighty and the exalted and those who rule the earth
Shall
fall down before him on their faces,
And
worship and set their hope upon that Son of Man,
And
petition him and supplicate for mercy at his hands.
10
Nevertheless that Lord of Spirits will so press them
That
they shall hastily go forth from His presence,
And
their faces shall be filled with shame,
And
the darkness grow deeper on their faces.
11
And He will deliver them to the angels for punishment,
To
execute vengeance on them because they have oppressed His children and His elect
"It
is our duty to force all mankind to accept the seven Noahide laws, and
if not—they will be killed." (Rabbi Yitzhak Ginsburg,
Ma'ariv, October 6, 2004) ...
12
And they shall be a spectacle for the righteous and for His elect:
They
shall rejoice over them,
Because
the wrath of the Lord of Spirits resteth upon them,
And
His sword is drunk with their blood.
Mt:10:34: Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
13
And the righteous and elect shall be saved on that day,
And
they shall never thenceforward see the face of the sinners and unrighteous.
14
And the Lord of Spirits will abide over them,
And
with that Son of Man shall they eat
And
lie down and rise up for ever and ever.
15
And the righteous and elect shall have risen from the earth,
And
ceased to be of downcast countenance.
And
they shall have been clothed with garments of glory,
16
And these shall be the garments of life from the Lord of Spirits:
White Robes of His righteousness, are you clothed in
the wedding garments?
And
your garments shall not grow old,
Nor
your glory pass away before the Lord of Spirits.
[Chapter 63]
1
In those days shall the mighty and the kings who possess the earth implore (Him)
to grant them a little respite from His angels of punishment to whom they were
delivered, that they might fall 2 down and worship
before the Lord of Spirits, and confess their sins before Him. And they shall
bless and glorify the Lord of Spirits, and say:
'
Blessed is the Lord of Spirits and the Lord of kings,
And
the Lord of the mighty and the Lord of the rich,
And
the Lord of glory and the Lord of wisdom,
3
And splendid in every secret thing is Thy power from generation to generation,
And
Thy glory for ever and ever:
Deep
are all Thy secrets and innumerable,
And
Thy righteousness is beyond reckoning.
4
We have now learnt that we should glorify
And
bless the Lord of kings and Him who is king over all kings.'
5
And they shall say:
'
Would that we had rest to glorify and give thanks
And
confess our faith before His glory !
6
And now we long for a little rest but find it not:
We
follow hard upon and obtain (it) not:
And
light has vanished from before us,
And
darkness is our dwelling-place for ever and ever:
7
For we have not believed before Him
Nor
glorified the name of the Lord of Spirits, [nor glorified our Lord]
The Talmud was written between 300-600 A.D. Other commonly quoted books like
the "Toledoth Yeshu`" were satires written to defame
Christianity as late as
But
our hope was in the sceptre of our kingdom,
And
in our glory.
8
And in the day of our suffering and tribulation He saves us not,
And
we find no respite for confession
That
our Lord is true in all His works, and in His judgements and His justice,
And
His judgements have no respect of persons.
And
we pass away from before His face on account of our works,
And
all our sins are reckoned up in righteousness.'
10
Now they shall say unto themselves: ' Our souls are full of unrighteous gain,
but it does not prevent us from descending from the midst thereof into the
burden of Sheol.'
11
And after that their faces shall be filled with darkness
And
shame before that Son of Man,
And
they shall be driven from his presence,
And
the sword shall abide before his face in their midst.
12
Thus spake the Lord of Spirits: ' This is the ordinance and judgement with
respect to the mighty and the kings and the exalted and those who possess the
earth before the Lord of Spirits.'
[Chapter 64]
1,2
And other forms I saw hidden in that place. I heard the voice of the angel
saying: ' These are the angels who descended to the earth, and revealed what was
hidden to the children of men and seduced the children of men into committing
sin.'
[Chapter 65]
1,
2 And in those days Noah saw the earth that it had sunk
down and its destruction was nigh. And he arose from thence and went to the ends
of the earth, and cried aloud to his grandfather Enoch: 3
and Noah said three times with an embittered voice: Hear me, hear me, hear me.'
And I said unto him: ' Tell me what it is that is falling out on the earth that
the earth is in such evil plight 4 and shaken,
lest perchance I shall perish with it ? ' And thereupon there was a great
commotion , on the earth, and a voice was heard from heaven, and I fell on my
face. And Enoch my grandfather came and stood by me, and said unto me: ' Why
hast thou cried unto me with a bitter cry and weeping 6
And a command has gone forth from the presence of the Lord concerning those who
dwell on the earth that their ruin is accomplished because they have learnt all
the secrets of the angels, and all the violence of the Satans, and all their
powers -the most secret ones- and all the power of those who practice sorcery,
and the power of witchcraft, and the power of those who make molten images 7
for the whole earth: And how silver is produced from the dust of the earth, and
how soft metal 8 originates in the earth. For lead
and tin are not produced from the earth like the first: it is a fountain 9
that produces them, and an angel stands therein, and that angel is pre-eminent.'
And after that my grandfather Enoch took hold of me by my hand and raised me up,
and said unto me: ' Go, for I have 10 asked the
Lord of Spirits as touching this commotion on the earth. And He said unto me:
" Because of their unrighteousness their judgement has been determined upon
and shall not be withheld by Me for ever. Because of the sorceries which they
have searched out and learnt, the earth and those 11
who dwell upon it shall be destroyed." And these-they have no place of
repentance for ever, because they have shown them what was hidden, and they are
the damned: but as for thee, my son, the Lord of Spirits knows that thou art
pure, and guiltless of this reproach concerning the secrets.
12
And He has destined thy name to be among the holy,
And
will preserve thee amongst those who dwell on the earth,
And
has destined thy righteous seed both for kingship and for great honours,
And
from thy seed shall proceed a fountain of the righteous and holy without number
for ever.
[Chapter 66]
1
And after that he showed me the angels of punishment who are prepared to come
and let loose all the powers of the waters which are beneath in the earth in
order to bring judgement and destruction 2 on all
who [abide and] dwell on the earth. And the Lord of Spirits gave commandment to
the angels who were going forth, that they should not cause the waters to rise
but should hold them 3 in check; for those angels
were over the powers of the waters. And I went away from the presence of Enoch.
[Chapter 67]
1
And in those days the word of God came unto me, and He said unto me: ' Noah, thy
lot has come 2 Up before Me, a lot without blame,
a lot of love and uprightness. And now the angels are making a wooden
(building), and when they have completed that task I will place My hand upon it
and preserve it, and there shall come forth from it the seed of life, and a
change shall set in so that the 3 earth will not
remain without inhabitant. And I will make fast thy seed before me for ever and
ever, and I will spread abroad those who dwell with thee: it shall not be
unfruitful on the face of the earth, but it shall be blessed and multiply on the
earth in the name of the Lord.' 4 And He will
imprison those angels, who have shown unrighteousness, in that burning valley
which my grandfather Enoch had formerly shown to me in the west among the
mountains of gold 5 and silver and iron and soft
metal and tin. And I saw that valley in which there was a great 6
convulsion and a convulsion of the waters. And when all this took place, from
that fiery molten metal and from the convulsion thereof in that place, there was
produced a smell of sulphur, and it was connected with those waters, and that
valley of the angels who had led astray (mankind) burned 7
beneath that land. And through its valleys proceed streams of fire, where these
angels are punished who had led astray those who dwell upon the earth. 8
But those waters shall in those days serve for the kings and the mighty and the
exalted, and those who dwell on the earth, for the healing of the body, but for
the punishment of the spirit; now their spirit is full of lust, that they may be
punished in their body, for they have denied the Lord of Spirits 9
and see their punishment daily, and yet believe not in His name. And in
proportion as the burning of their bodies becomes severe, a corresponding change
shall take place in their spirit for ever and ever; 10
for before the Lord of Spirits none shall utter an idle word. For the judgement
shall come upon them, 11 because they believe in
the lust of their body and deny the Spirit of the Lord. And those same waters
will undergo a change in those days; for when those angels are punished in these
waters, these water-springs shall change their temperature, and when the angels
ascend, this water of the 12 springs shall change
and become cold. And I heard Michael answering and saying: ' This judgement
wherewith the angels are judged is a testimony for the kings and the mighty who
possess the 13 earth.' Because these waters of
judgement minister to the healing of the body of the kings and the lust of their
body; therefore they will not see and will not believe that those waters will
change and become a fire which burns for ever.
[Chapter 68]
1
And after that my grandfather Enoch gave me the teaching of all the secrets in
the book in the Parables which had been given to him, and he put them together
for me in the words of the book 2 of the Parables.
And on that day Michael answered Raphael and said: ' The power of the spirit
transports and makes me to tremble because of the severity of the judgement of
the secrets, the judgement of the angels: who can endure the severe judgement
which has been executed, and before 3 which they
melt away ? ' And Michael answered again, and said to Raphael: ' Who is he whose
heart is not softened concerning it, and whose reins are not troubled by this
word of judgement 4 (that) has gone forth upon
them because of those who have thus led them out ? ' And it came to pass when he
stood before the Lord of Spirits, Michael said thus to Raphael: ' I will not
take their part under the eye of the Lord; for the Lord of Spirits has been
angry with them because they do 5 as if they were
the Lord. Therefore all that is hidden shall come upon them for ever and ever;
for neither angel nor man shall have his portion (in it), but alone they have
received their judgement for ever and ever.
[Chapter 69]
1
And after this judgement they shall terrify and make them to tremble because
they have shown this to those who dwell on the earth. 2
And behold the names of those angels [and these are their names: the first of
them is Samjaza, the second Artaqifa, and the third Armen, the fourth Kokabel,
the fifth Turael, the sixth Rumjal, the seventh Danjal, the eighth Neqael, the
ninth Baraqel, the tenth Azazel, the eleventh Armaros, the twelfth Batarjal, the
thirteenth Busasejal, the fourteenth Hananel, the fifteenth Turel, and the
sixteenth Simapesiel, the seventeenth Jetrel, the eighteenth Tumael, the
nineteenth Turel, 3 the twentieth Rumael, the
twenty-first Azazel. And these are the chiefs of their angels and their names,
and their chief ones over hundreds and over fifties and over tens]. 4
The name of the first Jeqon: that is, the one who led astray [all] the sons of
God, and brought them 5 down to the earth, and led
them astray through the daughters of men. And the second was named Asbeel: he
imparted to the holy sons of God evil counsel, and led them astray so that they
defiled 6 their bodies with the daughters of men.
And the third was named Gadreel: he it is who showed the children of men all the
blows of death, and he led astray Eve, and showed [the weapons of death to the
sons of men] the shield and the coat of mail, and the sword for battle, and all
the weapons 7 of death to the children of men. And
from his hand they have proceeded against those who dwell 8
on the earth from that day and for evermore. And the fourth was named Penemue:
he taught the 9 children of men the bitter and the
sweet, and he taught them all the secrets of their wisdom. And he instructed
mankind in writing with ink and paper, and thereby many sinned from eternity to 10
eternity and until this day. For men were not created for such a purpose, to
give confirmation 11 to their good faith with pen
and ink. For men were created exactly like the angels, to the intent that they
should continue pure and righteous, and death, which destroys everything, could
not have taken hold of them, but through this their knowledge they are
perishing, and through this power 12 it is
consuming me. And the fifth was named Kasdeja: this is he who showed the
children of men all the wicked smitings of spirits and demons, and the smitings
of the embryo in the womb, that it may pass away, and [the smitings of the soul]
the bites of the serpent, and the smitings 13
which befall through the noontide heat, the son of the serpent named Taba'et.
And this is the task of Kasbeel, the chief of the oath which he showed to the
holy ones when he dwelt high 14 above in glory,
and its name is Biqa. This (angel) requested Michael to show him the hidden
name, that he might enunciate it in the oath, so that those might quake before
that name and oath who revealed all that was in secret to the children of men.
And this is the power of this oath, for it is powerful and strong, and he placed
this oath Akae in the hand of Michael.
16
And these are the secrets of this oath . . .
And
they are strong through his oath:
And
the heaven was suspended before the world was created,
And
for ever
17
And through it the earth was founded upon the water,
And
from the secret recesses of the mountains come beautiful waters,
From
the creation of the world and unto eternity.
18
And through that oath the sea was created,
And
as its foundation He set for it the sand against the time of (its) anger,
And
it dare not pass beyond it from the creation of the world unto eternity.
19
And through that oath are the depths made fast,
And
abide and stir not from their place from eternity to eternity.
20
And through that oath the sun and moon complete their course,
And
deviate not from their ordinance from eternity to eternity.
21
And through that oath the stars complete their course,
And
He calls them by their names,
And
they answer Him from eternity to eternity.
22
[And in like manner the spirits of the water, and of the winds, and of all
zephyrs, and (their) paths 23 from all the
quarters of the winds. And there are preserved the voices of the thunder and the
light of the lightnings: and there are preserved the chambers of the hail and
the chambers of the 24 hoarfrost, and the
chambers of the mist, and the chambers of the rain and the dew. And all these
believe and give thanks before the Lord of Spirits, and glorify (Him) with all
their power, and their food is in every act of thanksgiving: they thank and
glorify and extol the name of the Lord of Spirits for ever and ever.]
25
And this oath is mighty over them
And
through it [they are preserved and] their paths are preserved,
And
their course is not destroyed.
26
And there was great joy amongst them,
And
they blessed and glorified and extolled
Because
the name of that Son of Man had been revealed unto them.
27
And he sat on the throne of his glory,
And
the sum of judgement was given unto the Son of Man,
And
he caused the sinners to pass away and be destroyed from off the face of the
earth,
And
those who have led the world astray.
28
With chains shall they be bound,
And
in their assemblage-place of destruction shall they be imprisoned,
And
all their works vanish from the face of the earth.
29
And from henceforth there shall be nothing corruptible;
For
that Son of Man has appeared,
And
has seated himself on the throne of his glory,
And
all evil shall pass away before his face,
And
the word of that Son of Man shall go forth
And
be strong before the Lord of Spirits.
[Chapter 70]
1
And it came to pass after this that his name during his lifetime was raised
aloft to that Son of 2 Man and to the Lord of
Spirits from amongst those who dwell on the earth. And he was raised aloft 3
on the chariots of the spirit and his name vanished among them. And from that
day I was no longer numbered amongst them: and he set me between the two winds,
between the North and the 4 West, where the angels
took the cords to measure for me the place for the elect and righteous. And
there I saw the first fathers and the righteous who from the beginning dwell in
that place.
Jn:14:2: In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
[Chapter 71]
1
And it came to pass after this that my spirit was translated
And
it ascended into the heavens:
And
I saw the holy sons of God.
They
were stepping on flames of fire:
Their
garments were white [and their raiment],
And
their faces shone like snow.
2
And I saw two streams of fire,
And
the light of that fire shone like hyacinth,
And
I fell on my face before the Lord of Spirits.
3
And the angel Michael [one of the archangels] seized me by my right hand,
And
lifted me up and led me forth into all the secrets,
And
he showed me all the secrets of righteousness.
4
And he showed me all the secrets of the ends of the heaven,
And
all the chambers of all the stars, and all the luminaries,
Whence
they proceed before the face of the holy ones.
5
And he translated my spirit into the heaven of heavens,
And
I saw there as it were a structure built of crystals,
And
between those crystals tongues of living fire.
6
And my spirit saw the girdle which girt that house of fire,
And
on its four sides were streams full of living fire,
And
they girt that house.
7
And round about were Seraphin, Cherubic, and Ophannin:
And
these are they who sleep not
And
guard the throne of His glory.
8
And I saw angels who could not be counted,
A
thousand thousands, and ten thousand times ten thousand,
Encircling
that house.
And
Michael, and Raphael, and Gabriel, and Phanuel,
And
the holy angels who are above the heavens,
Go
in and out of that house.
9
And they came forth from that house,
And
Michael and Gabriel, Raphael and Phanuel,
And
many holy angels without number.
10
And with them the Head of Days,
His
head white and pure as wool,
And
His raiment indescribable.
11
And I fell on my face,
And
my whole body became relaxed,
And
my spirit was transfigured;
And
I cried with a loud voice, . . .
with
the spirit of power,
And
blessed and glorified and extolled.
12
And these blessings which went forth out of my mouth were well pleasing before
that Head of Days. And that Head of Days came with Michael and Gabriel, Raphael
and Phanuel, thousands and ten thousands of angels without number.
[Lost passage
wherein the Son of Man was described as accompanying the Head of Days, and Enoch
asked one of the angels (as in xlvi. 3)
concerning the Son of Man as to who he was.]
14
And he (i.e. the angel) came to me and greeted me with His voice, and said unto
me '
This
is the Son of Man who is born unto righteousness,
And
righteousness abides over him,
And
the righteousness of the Head of Days forsakes him not.'
15
And he said unto me:
'
He proclaims unto thee peace in the name of the world to come;
For
from hence has proceeded peace since the creation of the world,
And
so shall it be unto thee for ever and for ever and ever.
16
And all shall walk in his ways since righteousness never forsaketh him:
With
him will be their dwelling-places, and with him their heritage,
And
they shall not be separated from him for ever and ever and ever.
And
so there shall be length of days with that Son of Man,
And
the righteous shall have peace and an upright way
In
the name of the Lord of Spirits for ever and ever.'
BOOK OF ENOCH
From-The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha
of the Old Testament
H.R. Charles Oxford: The Clarendon Press
Section III. Chapters LXXII-LXXXII
The Book of the Heavenly Luminaries
.
[Chapter 72]
1
The book of the courses of the luminaries of the heaven, the relations of each,
according to their classes, their dominion and their seasons, according to their
names and places of origin, and according to their months, which Uriel, the holy
angel, who was with me, who is their guide, showed me; and he showed me all
their laws exactly as they are, and how it is with regard to all the years of
the world 2 and unto eternity, till the new
creation is accomplished which dureth till eternity. And this is the first law
of the luminaries: the luminary the Sun has its rising in the eastern portals of
the heaven, 3 and its setting in the western
portals of the heaven. And I saw six portals in which the sun rises, and six
portals in which the sun sets and the moon rises and sets in these portals, and
the leaders of the stars and those whom they lead: six in the east and six in
the west, and all following each other 4 in
accurately corresponding order: also many windows to the right and left of these
portals. And first there goes forth the great luminary, named the Sun, and his
circumference is like the 5 circumference of the
heaven, and he is quite filled with illuminating and heating fire. The chariot
on which he ascends, the wind drives, and the sun goes down from the heaven and
returns through the north in order to reach the east, and is so guided that he
comes to the appropriate (lit. ' that ') portal and 6
shines in the face of the heaven. In this way he rises in the first month in the
great portal, which 7 is the fourth [those six
portals in the cast]. And in that fourth portal from which the sun rises in the
first month are twelve window-openings, from which proceed a flame when they are
opened in 8 their season. When the sun rises in
the heaven, he comes forth through that fourth portal thirty, 9
mornings in succession, and sets accurately in the fourth portal in the west of
the heaven. And during this period the day becomes daily longer and the night
nightly shorter to the thirtieth 10 morning. On
that day the day is longer than the night by a ninth part, and the day amounts
exactly to ten parts and the night to eight parts. And the sun rises from that
fourth portal, and sets in the fourth and returns to the fifth portal of the
east thirty mornings, and rises from it and sets in the fifth 12
portal. And then the day becomes longer by two parts and amounts to eleven
parts, and the night 13 becomes shorter and
amounts to seven parts. And it returns to the east and enters into the sixth 14
portal, and rises and sets in the sixth portal one-and-thirty mornings on
account of its sign. On that day the day becomes longer than the night, and the
day becomes double the night, and the day 15
becomes twelve parts, and the night is shortened and becomes six parts. And the
sun mounts up to make the day shorter and the night longer, and the sun returns
to the east and enters into the 16 sixth portal,
and rises from it and sets thirty mornings. And when thirty mornings are
accomplished, 17 the day decreases by exactly one
part, and becomes eleven parts, and the night seven. And the sun goes forth from
that sixth portal in the west, and goes to the east and rises in the fifth
portal for 18 thirty mornings, and sets in the
west again in the fifth western portal. On that day the day decreases by two
parts, and amounts to ten parts and the night to eight parts. And the sun goes
forth from that fifth portal and sets in the fifth portal of the west, and rises
in the fourth portal for one- 20 and-thirty
mornings on account of its sign, and sets in the west. On that day the day is
equalized with the night, [and becomes of equal length], and the night amounts
to nine parts and the day to 21 nine parts. And
the sun rises from that portal and sets in the west, and returns to the east and
rises 22 thirty mornings in the third portal and
sets in the west in the third portal. And on that day the night becomes longer
than the day, and night becomes longer than night, and day shorter than day till
the thirtieth morning, and the night amounts exactly to ten parts and the day to
eight 23 parts. And the sun rises from that third
portal and sets in the third portal in the west and returns to the east, and for
thirty mornings rises 24 in the second portal in
the east, and in like manner sets in the second portal in the west of the
heaven. And on that day the night amounts to eleven 25
parts and the day to seven parts. And the sun rises on that day from that second
portal and sets in the west in the second portal, and returns to the east into
the first portal for one-and-thirty 26 mornings,
and sets in the first portal in the west of the heaven. And on that day the
night becomes longer and amounts to the double of the day: and the night amounts
exactly to twelve parts and 27 the day to six.
And the sun has (therewith) traversed the divisions of his orbit and turns again
on those divisions of his orbit, and enters that portal thirty mornings and sets
also in the west 28 opposite to it. And on that
night has the night decreased in length by a ninth part, and the night 29
has become eleven parts and the day seven parts. And the sun has returned and
entered into the second portal in the east, and returns on those his divisions
of his orbit for thirty mornings, rising 30 and
setting. And on that day the night decreases in length, and the night amounts to
ten parts 31 and the day to eight. And on that
day the sun rises from that portal, and sets in the west, and returns to the
east, and rises in the third portal for one-and-thirty mornings, and sets in the
west of the heaven. 32 On that day the night
decreases and amounts to nine parts, and the day to nine parts, and the night 33
is equal to the day and the year is exactly as to its days three hundred and
sixty-four. And the length of the day and of the night, and the shortness of the
day and of the night arise-through the course 34
of the sun these distinctions are made (lit. ' they are separated '). So it
comes that its course becomes 35 daily longer,
and its course nightly shorter. And this is the law and the course of the sun,
and his return as often as he returns sixty times and rises, i.e. the great
luminary which is named the sun, for ever and ever. And that which (thus) rises
is the great luminary, and is so named according to 37
its appearance, according as the Lord commanded. As he rises, so he sets and
decreases not, and rests not, but runs day and night, and his light is sevenfold
brighter than that of the moon; but as regards size they are both equal.
[Chapter 73]
1
And after this law I saw another law dealing with the smaller luminary, which is
named the Moon. And her circumference is like the circumference of the heaven,
and her chariot in which she rides is driven by the wind, and light is given to
her in (definite) measure. And her rising and setting change every month: and
her days are like the days of the sun, and when her light is uniform (i.e. full)
it amounts to the seventh part of the light of the sun. And thus she rises. And
her first phase in the east comes forth on the thirtieth morning: and on that
day she becomes visible, and constitutes for you the first phase of the moon on
the thirtieth day together with the sun in the portal where the sun rises. And
the one half of her goes forth by a seventh part, and her whole circumference is
empty, without light, with the exception of one-seventh part of it, (and) the 6
fourteenth part of her light. And when she receives one-seventh part of the half
of her light, her light 7 amounts to one-seventh
part and the half thereof. And she sets with the sun, and when the sun rises the
moon rises with him and receives the half of one part of light, and in that
night in the beginning of her morning [in the commencement of the lunar day] the
moon sets with the sun, and 8 is invisible that
night with the fourteen parts and the half of one of them. And she rises on that
day with exactly a seventh part, and comes forth and recedes from the rising of
the sun, and in her remaining days she becomes bright in the (remaining)
thirteen parts.
[Chapter 74]
1
And I saw another course, a law for her, (and) how according to that law she
performs her monthly 2 revolution. And all these
Uriel, the holy angel who is the leader of them all, showed to me, and their
positions, and I wrote down their positions as he showed them to me, and I wrote
down their months 3 as they were, and the
appearance of their lights till fifteen days were accomplished. In single
seventh parts she accomplishes all her light in the east, and in single seventh
parts accomplishes all her 4 darkness in the west.
And in certain months she alters her settings, and in certain months she pursues
5 her own peculiar course. In two months the moon
sets with the sun: in those two middle portals the 6
third and the fourth. She goes forth for seven days, and turns about and returns
again through the portal where the sun rises, and accomplishes all her light:
and she recedes from the sun, and in eight 7 days
enters the sixth portal from which the sun goes forth. And when the sun goes
forth from the fourth portal she goes forth seven days, until she goes forth
from the fifth and turns back again in seven days into the fourth portal and
accomplishes all her light: and she recedes and enters into the 8
first portal in eight days. And she returns again in seven days into the fourth
portal from which the 9, 10
sun goes forth. Thus I saw their position -how the moons rose and the sun set in
those days. And if five years are added together the sun has an overplus of
thirty days, and all the days which accrue 11 to
it for one of those five years, when they are full, amount to 364 days. And the
overplus of the sun and of the stars amounts to six days: in 5 years 6 days
every year come to 30 days: and the 12 moon falls
behind the sun and stars to the number of 30 days. And the sun and the stars
bring in all the years exactly, so that they do not advance or delay their
position by a single day unto eternity; but complete the years with perfect
justice in 364 days. In 3 years there are 1,092 days, and in 5 years 1,820 days,
so that in 8 years there are 2,912 days. For the moon alone the days amount in 3
years to 1,062 days, and in 5 years she falls 50 days behind: [i.e. to the sum
(of 1,770) there is 5 to be added (1,000 and) 62 days.] And in 5 years there are
1,770 days, so that for the moon the days 6 in 8 years amount to 21,832 days.
[For in 8 years she falls behind to the amount of 80 days], all the 17 days she
falls behind in 8 years are 80. And the year is accurately completed in
conformity with their world-stations and the stations of the sun, which rise
from the portals through which it (the sun) rises and sets 30 days.
[Chapter 75]
1
And the leaders of the heads of the thousands, who are placed over the whole
creation and over all the stars, have also to do with the four intercalary days,
being inseparable from their office, according to the reckoning of the year, and
these render service on the four days which are not 2
reckoned in the reckoning of the year. And owing to them men go wrong therein,
for those luminaries truly render service on the world-stations, one in the
first portal, one in the third portal of the heaven, one in the fourth portal,
and one in the sixth portal, and the exactness of the year is 3
accomplished through its separate three hundred and sixty-four stations. For the
signs and the times and the years and the days the angel Uriel showed to me,
whom the Lord of glory hath set for ever over all the luminaries of the heaven,
in the heaven and in the world, that they should rule on the face of the heaven
and be seen on the earth, and be leaders for the day and the night, i.e. the
sun, moon, and stars, and all the ministering creatures which make their
revolution in all the chariots 4 of the heaven. In
like manner twelve doors Uriel showed me, open in the circumference of the sun's
chariot in the heaven, through which the rays of the sun break forth: and from
them is warmth 5 diffused over the earth, when
they are opened at their appointed seasons. [And for the winds and 6
the spirit of the dew when they are opened, standing open in the heavens at the
ends.] As for the twelve portals in the heaven, at the ends of the earth, out of
which go forth the sun, moon, and stars, 7 and all
the works of heaven in the east and in the west, There are many windows open to
the left and right of them, and one window at its (appointed) season produces
warmth, corresponding (as these do) to those doors from which the stars come
forth according as He has commanded them, 8 and
wherein they set corresponding to their number. And I saw chariots in the
heaven, running 9 in the world, above those
portals in which revolve the stars that never set. And one is larger than all
the rest, and it is that that makes its course through the entire world.
[Chapter 76]
1
And at the ends of the earth I saw twelve portals open to all the quarters (of
the heaven), from 2 which the winds go forth and
blow over the earth. Three of them are open on the face (i.e. the east) of the
heavens, and three in the west, and three on the right (i.e. the south) of the
heaven, and 3 three on the left (i.e. the north).
And the three first are those of the east, and three are of the 4
north, and three [after those on the left] of the south, and three of the west.
Through four of these come winds of blessing and prosperity, and from those
eight come hurtful winds: when they are sent, they bring destruction on all the
earth and on the water upon it, and on all who dwell thereon, and on everything
which is in the water and on the land. 5 And the
first wind from those portals, called the east wind, comes forth through the
first portal which is in the east, inclining towards the south: from it come
forth desolation, drought, heat, 6 and
destruction. And through the second portal in the middle comes what is fitting,
and from it there come rain and fruitfulness and prosperity and dew; and through
the third portal which lies toward the north come cold and drought. 7
And after these come forth the south winds through three portals: through the
first portal of 8 them inclining to the east comes
forth a hot wind. And through the middle portal next to it there 9
come forth fragrant smells, and dew and rain, and prosperity and health. And
through the third portal lying to the west come forth dew and rain, locusts and
desolation. 10 And after these the north winds:
from the seventh portal in the east come dew and rain, locusts and desolation.
And from the middle portal come in a direct direction health and rain and dew
and prosperity; and through the third portal in the west come cloud and
hoar-frost, and snow and rain, and dew and locusts. 12
And after these [four] are the west winds: through the first portal adjoining
the north come forth dew and hoar-frost, and cold and snow and frost. And from
the middle portal come forth dew and rain, and prosperity and blessing; and
through the last portal which adjoins the south come forth drought and
desolation, and burning and destruction. And the twelve portals of the four
quarters of the heaven are therewith completed, and all their laws and all their
plagues and all their benefactions have I shown to thee, my son Methuselah.
[Chapter 77]
1
And the first quarter is called the east, because it is the first: and the
second, the south, because the Most High will descend there, yea, there in quite
a special sense will He who is blessed for ever 2
descend. And the west quarter is named the diminished, because there all the
luminaries of the 3 heaven wane and go down. And
the fourth quarter, named the north, is divided into three parts: the first of
them is for the dwelling of men: and the second contains seas of water, and the
abysses and forests and rivers, and darkness and clouds; and the third part
contains the garden of righteousness. 4 I saw
seven high mountains, higher than all the mountains which are on the earth: and
thence 5 comes forth hoar-frost, and days,
seasons, and years pass away. I saw seven rivers on the earth larger than all
the rivers: one of them coming from the west pours its waters into the Great
Sea. 6 And these two come from the north to the
sea and pour their waters into the Erythraean Sea in the 7
east. And the remaining, four come forth on the side of the north to their own
sea, two of them to the Erythraean Sea, and two into the Great Sea and discharge
themselves there [and some say: 8 into the
desert]. Seven great islands I saw in the sea and in the mainland: two in the
mainland and five in the Great Sea.
[Chapter 78]
1,
2 And the names of the sun are the following: the first
Orjares, and the second Tomas. And the moon has four names: the first name is
Asonja, the second Ebla, the third Benase, and the fourth 3
Erae. These are the two great luminaries: their circumference is like the
circumference of the 4 heaven, and the size of the
circumference of both is alike. In the circumference of the sun there are seven
portions of light which are added to it more than to the moon, and in definite
measures it is s transferred till the seventh portion of the sun is exhausted.
And they set and enter the portals of the west, and make their revolution by the
north, and come forth through the eastern portals 6
on the face of the heaven. And when the moon rises one-fourteenth part appears
in the heaven: 7 [the light becomes full in her]:
on the fourteenth day she accomplishes her light. And fifteen parts of light are
transferred to her till the fifteenth day (when) her light is accomplished,
according to the sign of the year, and she becomes fifteen parts, and the moon
grows by (the addition of) fourteenth 8 parts. And
in her waning (the moon) decreases on the first day to fourteen parts of her
light, on the second to thirteen parts of light, on the third to twelve, on the
fourth to eleven, on the fifth to ten, on the sixth to nine, on the seventh to
eight, on the eighth to seven, on the ninth to six, on the tenth to five, on the
eleventh to four, on the twelfth to three, on the thirteenth to two, on the 9
fourteenth to the half of a seventh, and all her remaining light disappears
wholly on the fifteenth. And 10 in certain months
the month has twenty-nine days and once twenty-eight. And Uriel showed me
another law: when light is transferred to the moon, and on which side it is
transferred to her by the sun. During all the period during which the moon is
growing in her light, she is transferring it to herself when opposite to the sun
during fourteen days [her light is accomplished in the heaven, 12
and when she is illumined throughout, her light is accomplished full in the
heaven. And on the first 13 day she is called the
new moon, for on that day the light rises upon her. She becomes full moon
exactly on the day when the sun sets in the west, and from the east she rises at
night, and the moon shines the whole night through till the sun rises over
against her and the moon is seen over against the sun. On the side whence the
light of the moon comes forth, there again she wanes till all the light vanishes
and all the days of the month are at an end, and her circumference is empty,
void of 5 light. And three months she makes of thirty days, and at her time she
makes three months of twenty- nine days each, in which she accomplishes her
waning in the first period of time, and in the first 6 portal for one hundred
and seventy-seven days. And in the time of her going out she appears for three
months (of) thirty days each, and for three months she appears (of) twenty-nine
each. At night she appears like a man for twenty days each time, and by day she
appears like the heaven, and there is nothing else in her save her light.
[Chapter 79]
1
And now, my son, I have shown thee everything, and the law of all the stars of
the heaven is 2 completed. And he showed me all
the laws of these for every day, and for every season of bearing rule, and for
every year, and for its going forth, and for the order prescribed to it every
month 3 and every week: And the waning of the moon
which takes place in the sixth portal: for in this 4
sixth portal her light is accomplished, and after that there is the beginning of
the waning: (And the waning) which takes place in the first portal in its
season, till one hundred and seventy-seven 5 days
are accomplished: reckoned according to weeks, twenty-five (weeks) and two days.
She falls behind the sun and the order of the stars exactly five days in the
course of one period, and when 6 this place which
thou seest has been traversed. Such is the picture and sketch of every luminary
which Uriel the archangel, who is their leader, showed unto me.
[Chapter 80]
1
And in those days the angel Uriel answered and said to me: ' Behold, I have
shown thee everything, Enoch, and I have revealed everything to thee that thou
shouldst see this sun and this moon, and the leaders of the stars of the heaven
and all those who turn them, their tasks and times and departures.
2
And in the days of the sinners the years shall be shortened,
And
their seed shall be tardy on their lands and fields,
And
all things on the earth shall alter,
And
shall not appear in their time:
And
the rain shall be kept back
And
the heaven shall withhold (it).
3
And in those times the fruits of the earth shall be backward,
And
shall not grow in their time,
And
the fruits of the trees shall be withheld in their time.
4
And the moon shall alter her order,
And
not appear at her time.
5
[And in those days the sun shall be seen and he shall journey in the evening on
the extremity of the great chariot in the west]
And
shall shine more brightly than accords with the order of light.
6
And many chiefs of the stars shall transgress the order (prescribed).
And
these shall alter their orbits and tasks,
And
not appear at the seasons prescribed to them.
7
And the whole order of the stars shall be concealed from the sinners,
And
the thoughts of those on the earth shall err concerning them,
[And
they shall be altered from all their ways],
Yea,
they shall err and take them to be gods.
8
And evil shall be multiplied upon them,
And
punishment shall come upon them So as to destroy all.'
Acts:7:43: Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, figures which ye made to worship them: and I will carry you away beyond Babylon.
[Chapter 81]
1
And he said unto me:
'
Observe, Enoch, these heavenly tablets,
And
read what is written thereon,
And
mark every individual fact.'
2
And I observed the heavenly tablets, and read everything which was written
(thereon) and understood everything, and read the book of all the deeds of
mankind, and of all the children of flesh 3 that
shall be upon the earth to the remotest generations. And forthwith I blessed the
great Lord the King of glory for ever, in that He has made all the works of the
world,
And
I extolled the Lord because of His patience,
And
blessed Him because of the children of men.
4
And after that I said:
'
Blessed is the man who dies in righteousness and goodness,
Concerning
whom there is no book of unrighteousness written,
And
against whom no day of judgement shall be found.'
5
And those seven holy ones brought me and placed me on the earth before the door
of my house, and said to me: ' Declare everything to thy son Methuselah, and
show to all thy children that no 6 flesh is
righteous in the sight of the Lord, for He is their Creator. One year we will
leave thee with thy son, till thou givest thy (last) commands, that thou mayest
teach thy children and record (it) for them, and testify to all thy children;
and in the second year they shall take thee from their midst.
7
Let thy heart be strong,
For
the good shall announce righteousness to the good;
The
righteous with the righteous shall rejoice,
And
shall offer congratulation to one another.
8
But the sinners shall die with the sinners,
And
the apostate go down with the apostate.
9
And those who practice righteousness shall die on account of the deeds
of men,
And
be taken away on account of the doings of the godless.'
10
And in those days they ceased to speak to me, and I came to my people, blessing
the Lord of the world.
[Chapter 82]
1
And now, my son Methuselah, all these things I am recounting to thee and writing
down for thee! and I have revealed to thee everything, and given thee books
concerning all these: so preserve, my son Methuselah, the books from thy
father's hand, and (see) that thou deliver them to the generations of the world.
2
I have given Wisdom to thee and to thy children,
[And
thy children that shall be to thee],
That
they may give it to their children for generations,
This
wisdom (namely) that passeth their thought.
3
And those who understand it shall not sleep,
But
shall listen with the ear that they may learn this wisdom,
And
it shall please those that eat thereof better than good food.
4
Blessed are all the righteous, blessed are all those who walk In the way of
righteousness and sin not as the sinners, in the reckoning of all their days in
which the sun traverses the heaven, entering into and departing from the portals
for thirty days with the heads of thousands of the order of the stars, together
with the four which are intercalated which divide the four portions of the year,
which 5 lead them and enter with them four days.
Owing to them men shall be at fault and not reckon them in the whole reckoning
of the year: yea, men shall be at fault, and not recognize them 6
accurately. For they belong to the reckoning of the year and are truly recorded
(thereon) for ever, one in the first portal and one in the third, and one in the
fourth and one in the sixth, and the year is completed in three hundred and
sixty-four days. 7 And the account thereof is
accurate and the recorded reckoning thereof exact; for the luminaries, and
months and festivals, and years and days, has Uriel shown and revealed to me, to
whom the 8 Lord of the whole creation of the world
hath subjected the host of heaven. And he has power over night and day in the
heaven to cause the light to give light to men -sun, moon, and stars, 9
and all the powers of the heaven which revolve in their circular chariots. And
these are the orders of the stars, which set in their places, and in their
seasons and festivals and months. 10 And these
are the names of those who lead them, who watch that they enter at their times,
in their orders, in their seasons, in their months, in their periods of
dominion, and in their positions. Their four leaders who divide the four parts
of the year enter first; and after them the twelve leaders of the orders who
divide the months; and for the three hundred and sixty (days) there are heads
over thousands who divide the days; and for the four intercalary days there are
the leaders which sunder 12 the four parts of the
year. And these heads over thousands are intercalated between 13
leader and leader, each behind a station, but their leaders make the division.
And these are the names of the leaders who divide the four parts of the year
which are ordained: Milki'el, Hel'emmelek, and Mel'ejal, 14
and Narel. And the names of those who lead them: Adnar'el, and Ijasusa'el, and 'Elome'el-
these three follow the leaders of the orders, and there is one that follows the
three leaders of the orders which follow those leaders of stations that divide
the four parts of the year. In the beginning of the year Melkejal rises first
and rules, who is named Tam'aini and sun, and 16
all the days of his dominion whilst he bears rule are ninety-one days. And these
are the signs of the days which are to be seen on earth in the days of his
dominion: sweat, and heat, and calms; and all the trees bear fruit, and leaves
are produced on all the trees, and the harvest of wheat, and the rose-flowers,
and all the flowers which come forth in the field, but the trees of the winter
season become withered. And these are the names of the leaders which are under
them: Berka'el, Zelebs'el, and another who is added a head of a thousand, called
Hilujaseph: and the days of the dominion of this (leader) are at an end. 18
The next leader after him is Hel'emmelek, whom one names the shining sun, and
all the days 19 of his light are ninety-one days.
And these are the signs of (his) days on the earth: glowing heat and dryness,
and the trees ripen their fruits and produce all their fruits ripe and ready,
and the sheep pair and become pregnant, and all the fruits of the earth are
gathered in, and everything that is 20 in the
fields, and the winepress: these things take place in the days of his dominion.
These are the names, and the orders, and the leaders of those heads of
thousands: Gida'ljal, Ke'el, and He'el, and the name of the head of a thousand
which is added to them, Asfa'el: and the days of his dominion are at an end.
BOOK OF ENOCH
From-The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha
of the Old Testament
H.R. Charles Oxford: The Clarendon Press
Section IV. Chapters LXXXIII-XC.
The Dream-Visions.
[Chapter 83]
1
And now, my son Methuselah, I will show thee all my visions which I have seen,
recounting 2 them before thee. Two visions I saw
before I took a wife, and the one was quite unlike the other: the first when I
was learning to write: the second before I took thy mother, (when) I saw a
terrible 3 vision. And regarding them I prayed to the Lord. I
had laid me down in the house of my grandfather Mahalalel, (when) I saw in a
vision how the heaven collapsed and was borne off and fell to 4
the earth. And when it fell to the earth I saw how the earth was swallowed up in
a great abyss, and mountains were suspended on mountains, and hills sank down on
hills, and high trees were rent 5 from their
stems, and hurled down and sunk in the abyss.
Mt:24:29: Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
Mk:13:25: And the stars of heaven shall fall, and the powers that are in heaven shall be shaken.
And thereupon a word fell into my
mouth, 6 and I lifted up (my voice) to cry aloud,
and said: ' The earth is destroyed.' And my grandfather Mahalalel waked me as I
lay near him, and said unto me: ' Why dost thou cry so, my son, and why 7
dost thou make such lamentation?' And I recounted to him the whole vision which
I had seen, and he said unto me: ' A terrible thing hast thou seen, my son, and
of grave moment is thy dream- vision as to the secrets of all the sin of the
earth: it must sink into the abyss and be destroyed with 8
a great destruction. And now, my son, arise and make petition to the Lord of
glory, since thou art a believer, that a remnant may remain on the earth, and
that He may not destroy the whole 9 earth. My son,
from heaven all this will come upon the earth, and upon the earth there will be
great 10 destruction. After that I arose and
prayed and implored and besought, and wrote down my prayer for the generations
of the world, and I will show everything to thee, my son Methuselah. And when I
had gone forth below and seen the heaven, and the sun rising in the east, and
the moon setting in the west, and a few stars, and the whole earth, and
everything as He had known it in the beginning, then I blessed the Lord of
judgement and extolled Him because He had made the sun to go forth from the
windows of the east, and he ascended and rose on the face of the heaven, and set
out and kept traversing the path shown unto him.
[Chapter 84]
1
And I lifted up my hands in righteousness and blessed the Holy and Great One,
and spake with the breath of my mouth, and with the tongue of flesh, which God
has made for the children of the flesh of men, that they should speak therewith,
and He gave them breath and a tongue and a mouth that they should speak
therewith:
2
Blessed be Thou, O Lord, King,
Great
and mighty in Thy greatness,
Lord
of the whole creation of the heaven,
King
of kings and God of the whole world.
And
Thy power and kingship and greatness abide for ever and ever,
And
throughout all generations Thy dominion;
And
all the heavens are Thy throne for ever,
And
the whole earth Thy footstool for ever and ever.
3
For Thou hast made and Thou rulest all things,
And
nothing is too hard for Thee,
Wisdom
departs not from the place of Thy throne,
Nor
turns away from Thy presence.
And
Thou knowest and seest and hearest everything,
And
there is nothing hidden from Thee [for Thou seest everything]
4
And now the angels of Thy heavens are guilty of trespass,
And
upon the flesh of men abideth Thy wrath until the great day of
judgement.
5
And now, O God and Lord and Great King,
I
implore and beseech Thee to fulfil my prayer,
To
leave me a posterity on earth,
And
not destroy all the flesh of man,
And
make the earth without inhabitant,
So
that there should be an eternal destruction.
6
And now, my Lord, destroy from the earth the flesh which has aroused
Thy wrath,
But
the flesh of righteousness and uprightness establish as a plant of the
eternal seed,
And
hide not Thy face from the prayer of Thy servant, O Lord.'
[Chapter 85]
1,2
And after this I saw another dream, and I will show the whole dream to thee, my
son. And Enoch lifted up (his voice) and spake to his son Methuselah: ' To thee,
my son, will I speak: hear my words-incline thine ear to the dream-vision of thy
father. Before I took thy mother Edna, I saw in a vision on my bed, and behold a
bull came forth from the earth, and that bull was white; and after it came forth
a heifer, and along with this (latter) came forth two bulls, one of them black
and 4 the other red. And that black bull gored the
red one and pursued him over the earth, and thereupon 5
I could no longer see that red bull. But that black bull grew and that heifer
went with him, and 6 I saw that many oxen
proceeded from him which resembled and followed him. And that cow, that first
one, went from the presence of that first bull in order to seek that red one,
but found him 7 not, and lamented with a great
lamentation over him and sought him. And I looked till that first 8
bull came to her and quieted her, and from that time onward she cried no more.
And after that she bore another white bull, and after him she bore many bulls
and black cows. 9 And I saw in my sleep that white
bull likewise grow and become a great white bull, and from Him proceeded many
white bulls, and they resembled him. And they began to beget many white bulls,
which resembled them, one following the other, (even) many.
[Chapter 86]
1
And again I saw with mine eyes as I slept, and I saw the heaven above, and
behold a star fell 2 from heaven, and it arose and
eat and pastured amongst those oxen. And after that I saw the large and the
black oxen, and behold they all changed their stalls and pastures and their
cattle, and began 3 to live with each other. And
again I saw in the vision, and looked towards the heaven, and behold I saw many
stars descend and cast themselves down from heaven to that first star, and they
became 4 bulls amongst those cattle and pastured
with them [amongst them]. And I looked at them and saw, and behold they all let
out their privy members, like horses, and began to cover the cows of the oxen, 5
and they all became pregnant and bare elephants, camels, and asses. And all the
oxen feared them and were affrighted at them, and began to bite with their teeth
and to devour, and to gore with their 6 horns. And
they began, moreover, to devour those oxen; and behold all the children of the
earth began to tremble and quake before them and to flee from them.
[Chapter 87]
1
And again I saw how they began to gore each other and to devour each other, and
the earth 2 began to cry aloud. And I raised mine
eyes again to heaven, and I saw in the vision, and behold there came forth from
heaven beings who were like white men: and four went forth from that place 3
and three with them. And those three that had last come forth grasped me by my
hand and took me up, away from the generations of the earth, and raised me up to
a lofty place, and showed me 4 a tower raised high
above the earth, and all the hills were lower. And one said unto me: ' Remain
here till thou seest everything that befalls those elephants, camels, and asses,
and the stars and the oxen, and all of them.'
[Chapter 88]
1
And I saw one of those four who had come forth first, and he seized that first
star which had fallen from the heaven, and bound it hand and foot and cast it
into an abyss: now that abyss was 2 narrow and
deep, and horrible and dark.
Rev.9:1: And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit.
2: And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.
3: And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.
And one of them drew a sword, and gave it to those
elephants and camels and asses: then they began to smite each other, and the
whole earth quaked 3 because of them. And as I was
beholding in the vision, lo, one of those four who had come forth stoned (them)
from heaven, and gathered and took all the great stars whose privy members were
like those of horses, and bound them all hand and foot, and cast them in an
abyss of the earth.
[Chapter 89]
1
And one of those four went to that white bull and instructed him in a secret,
without his being terrified: he was born a bull and became a man, and built for
himself a great vessel and dwelt thereon; 2 and
three bulls dwelt with him in that vessel and they were covered in. And again I
raised mine eyes towards heaven and saw a lofty roof, with seven water torrents
thereon, and those torrents 3 flowed with much
water into an enclosure. And I saw again, and behold fountains were opened on
the surface of that great enclosure, and that water began to swell and rise upon
the surface, 4 and I saw that enclosure till all
its surface was covered with water. And the water, the darkness, and mist
increased upon it; and as I looked at the height of that water, that water had
risen above the height of that enclosure, and was streaming over that enclosure,
and it stood upon the earth. 5 And all the cattle
of that enclosure were gathered together until I saw how they sank and were 6
swallowed up and perished in that water. But that vessel floated on the water,
while all the oxen and elephants and camels and asses sank to the bottom with
all the animals, so that I could no longer see them, and they were not able to
escape, (but) perished and sank into the depths. And again I saw in the vision
till those water torrents were removed from that high roof, and the chasms 8
of the earth were leveled up and other abysses were opened. Then the water began
to run down into these, till the earth became visible; but that vessel settled
on the earth, and the darkness 9 retired and light
appeared. But that white bull which had become a man came out of that vessel,
and the three bulls with him, and one of those three was white like that bull,
and one of them was red as blood, and one black: and that white bull departed
from them. 10 And they began to bring forth
beasts of the field and birds, so that there arose different genera: lions,
tigers, wolves, dogs, hyenas, wild boars, foxes, squirrels, swine, falcons,
vultures, kites, eagles, and ravens; and among them was born a white bull. And
they began to bite one another; but that white bull which was born amongst them
begat a wild ass and a white bull with it, and the 12
wild asses multiplied. But that bull which was born from him begat a black wild
boar and a white 13 sheep; and the former begat
many boars, but that sheep begat twelve sheep. And when those twelve sheep had
grown, they gave up one of them to the asses, and those asses again gave up that
sheep to the wolves, and that sheep grew up among the wolves. And the Lord
brought the eleven sheep to live with it and to pasture with it among the
wolves: and they multiplied and became many flocks of sheep. And the wolves
began to fear them, and they oppressed them until they destroyed their little
ones, and they cast their young into a river of much water: but those sheep
began to 16 cry aloud on account of their little
ones, and to complain unto their Lord. And a sheep which had been saved from the
wolves fled and escaped to the wild asses; and I saw the sheep how they lamented
and cried, and besought their Lord with all their might, till that Lord of the
sheep descended at the voice of the sheep from a lofty abode, and came to them
and pastured them. And He called that sheep which had escaped the wolves, and
spake with it concerning the wolves that it should 18
admonish them not to touch the sheep. And the sheep went to the wolves according
to the word of the Lord, and another sheep met it and went with it, and the two
went and entered together into the assembly of those wolves, and spake with them
and admonished them not to touch the 19 sheep
from henceforth. And thereupon I saw the wolves, and how they oppressed the
sheep 20 exceedingly with all their power; and
the sheep cried aloud. And the Lord came to the sheep and they began to smite
those wolves: and the wolves began to make lamentation; but the sheep became 21
quiet and forthwith ceased to cry out. And I saw the sheep till they departed
from amongst the wolves; but the eyes of the wolves were blinded, and those
wolves departed in pursuit of the sheep 22 with
all their power. And the Lord of the sheep went with them, as their leader, and
all His sheep 23 followed Him: and his face was
dazzling and glorious and terrible to behold. But the wolves 24
began to pursue those sheep till they reached a sea of water. And that sea was
divided, and the water stood on this side and on that before their face, and
their Lord led them and placed Himself between 25
them and the wolves. And as those wolves did not yet see the sheep, they
proceeded into the midst of that sea, and the wolves followed the sheep, and
[those wolves] ran after them into that sea. 26
And when they saw the Lord of the sheep, they turned to flee before His face,
but that sea gathered itself together, and became as it had been created, and
the water swelled and rose till it covered 27
those wolves. And I saw till all the wolves who pursued those sheep perished and
were drowned. 28 But the sheep escaped from that
water and went forth into a wilderness, where there was no water and no grass;
and they began to open their eyes and to see; and I saw the Lord of the sheep 29
pasturing them and giving them water and grass, and that sheep going and leading
them. And that 30 sheep ascended to the summit of
that lofty rock, and the Lord of the sheep sent it to them. And after that I saw
the Lord of the sheep who stood before them, and His appearance was great and 31
terrible and majestic, and all those sheep saw Him and were afraid before His
face. And they all feared and trembled because of Him, and they cried to that
sheep with them [which was amongst 32 them]: ' We
are not able to stand before our Lord or to behold Him.' And that sheep which
led them again ascended to the summit of that rock, but the sheep began to be
blinded and to wander 33 from the way which he
had showed them, but that sheep wot not thereof. And the Lord of the sheep was
wrathful exceedingly against them, and that sheep discovered it, and went down
from the summit of the rock, and came to the sheep, and found the greatest part
of them blinded and fallen 34 away. And when they
saw it they feared and trembled at its presence, and desired to return to their 35
folds. And that sheep took other sheep with it, and came to those sheep which
had fallen away, and began to slay them; and the sheep feared its presence, and
thus that sheep brought back those 36 sheep that
had fallen away, and they returned to their folds. And I saw in this vision till
that sheep became a man and built a house for the Lord of the sheep, and placed
all the sheep in that house. 37 And I saw till
this sheep which had met that sheep which led them fell asleep: and I saw till
all the great sheep perished and little ones arose in their place, and they came
to a pasture, and 38 approached a stream of
water. Then that sheep, their leader which had become a man, withdrew 39
from them and fell asleep, and all the sheep sought it and cried over it with a
great crying. And I saw till they left off crying for that sheep and crossed
that stream of water, and there arose the two sheep as leaders in the place of
those which had led them and fallen asleep (lit. ' had fallen asleep and led 40
them '). And I saw till the sheep came to a goodly place, and a pleasant and
glorious land, and I saw till those sheep were satisfied; and that house stood
amongst them in the pleasant land. 41 And
sometimes their eyes were opened, and sometimes blinded, till another sheep
arose and led them and brought them all back, and their eyes were opened. 42
And the dogs and the foxes and the wild boars began to devour those sheep till
the Lord of the sheep raised up [another sheep] a ram from their 43
midst, which led them. And that ram began to butt on either side those dogs,
foxes, and wild 44 boars till he had destroyed
them all. And that sheep whose eyes were opened saw that ram, which was amongst
the sheep, till it forsook its glory and began to butt those sheep, and trampled
upon them, and behaved itself 45 unseemly. And
the Lord of the sheep sent the lamb to another lamb and raised it to being a ram
and leader of the sheep instead of that 46 ram
which had forsaken its glory. And it went to it and spake to it alone, and
raised it to being a ram, and made it the prince and leader of the sheep; but
during all these things those dogs 47 oppressed
the sheep. And the first ram pursued that second ram, and that second ram arose
and fled before it; and I saw till those dogs pulled 48
down the first ram. And that second ram arose 49
and led the [little] sheep. And those sheep grew and multiplied; but all the
dogs, and foxes, and wild boars feared and fled before it, and that ram butted
and killed the wild beasts, and those wild beasts had no longer any power among
the 48b sheep and robbed them no more of ought.
And that ram begat many sheep and fell asleep; and a little sheep became ram in
its stead, and became prince and leader of those sheep. 50
And that house became great and broad, and it was built for those sheep: (and) a
tower lofty and great was built on the house for the Lord of the sheep, and that
house was low, but the tower was elevated and lofty, and the Lord of the sheep
stood on that tower and they offered a full table before Him. 51
And again I saw those sheep that they again erred and went many ways, and
forsook that their house, and the Lord of the sheep called some from amongst the
sheep and sent them to the sheep, 52 but the
sheep began to slay them. And one of them was saved and was not slain, and it
sped away and cried aloud over the sheep; and they sought to slay it, but the
Lord of the sheep saved it from 53 the sheep, and
brought it up to me, and caused it to dwell there. And many other sheep He sent
to those sheep to testify unto them and lament over them. And after that I saw
that when they forsook the house of the Lord and His tower they fell away
entirely, and their eyes were blinded; and I saw the Lord of the sheep how He
wrought much slaughter amongst them in their herds until 55
those sheep invited that slaughter and betrayed His place. And He gave them over
into the hands of the lions and tigers, and wolves and hyenas, and into the hand
of the foxes, and to all the wild 56 beasts, and
those wild beasts began to tear in pieces those sheep. And I saw that He forsook
that their house and their tower and gave them all into the hand of the lions,
to tear and devour them, 57 into the hand of all
the wild beasts. And I began to cry aloud with all my power, and to appeal to
the Lord of the sheep, and to represent to Him in regard to the sheep that they
were devoured 58 by all the wild beasts. But He
remained unmoved, though He saw it, and rejoiced that they were devoured and
swallowed and robbed, and left them to be devoured in the hand of all the
beasts. 59 And He called seventy shepherds, and
cast those sheep to them that they might pasture them, and He spake to the
shepherds and their companions: ' Let each individual of you pasture the sheep 60
henceforward, and everything that I shall command you that do ye. And I will
deliver them over unto you duly numbered, and tell you which of them are to be
destroyed-and them destroy ye.' And 61 He gave
over unto them those sheep. And He called another and spake unto him: ' Observe
and mark everything that the shepherds will do to those sheep; for they will
destroy more of them than 62 I have commanded
them. And every excess and the destruction which will be wrought through the
shepherds, record (namely) how many they destroy according to my command, and
how many according to their own caprice: record against every individual
shepherd all the destruction he 63 effects.
Sanhedrin
And
read out before me by number how many they destroy, and how many they deliver
over for destruction, that I may have this as a testimony against them, and know
every deed of the shepherds, that I may comprehend and see what they do, whether
or not they abide by my 64 command which I have
commanded them. But they shall not know it, and thou shalt not declare it to
them, nor admonish them, but only record against each individual all the
destruction which 65 the shepherds effect each in
his time and lay it all before me.' And I saw till those shepherds pastured in
their season, and they began to slay and to destroy more than they were bidden,
and they delivered 66 those sheep into the hand
of the lions. And the lions and tigers eat and devoured the greater part of
those sheep, and the wild boars eat along with them; and they burnt that tower
and demolished 67 that house. And I became
exceedingly sorrowful over that tower because that house of the sheep was
demolished, and afterwards I was unable to see if those sheep entered that
house. 68 And the shepherds and their associates
delivered over those sheep to all the wild beasts, to devour them, and each one
of them received in his time a definite number: it was written by the other 69
in a book how many each one of them destroyed of them. And each one slew and
destroyed many 70 more than was prescribed; and I
began to weep and lament on account of those sheep. And thus in the vision I saw
that one who wrote, how he wrote down every one that was destroyed by those
shepherds, day by day, and carried up and laid down and showed actually the
whole book to the Lord of the sheep-(even) everything that they had done, and
all that each one of them had made 71 away with,
and all that they had given over to destruction. And the book was read before
the Lord of the sheep, and He took the book from his hand and read it and sealed
it and laid it down. 72 And forthwith I saw how
the shepherds pastured for twelve hours, and behold three of those sheep turned
back and came and entered and began to build up all that had fallen down of that
73 house; but the wild boars tried to hinder
them, but they were not able. And they began again to build as before, and they
reared up that tower, and it was named the high tower; and they began again to
place a table before the tower, but all the bread on it was polluted and not
pure. 74
second
temple
And as touching all this the eyes of
those sheep were blinded so that they saw not, and (the eyes of) their shepherds
likewise; and they delivered them in large numbers to their shepherds for 75
destruction, and they trampled the sheep with their feet and devoured them. And
the Lord of the sheep remained unmoved till all the sheep were dispersed over
the field and mingled with them (i.e. the 76
beasts), and they (i.e. the shepherds) did not save them out of the hand of the
beasts. And this one who wrote the book carried it up, and showed it and read it
before the Lord of the sheep, and implored Him on their account, and besought
Him on their account as he showed Him all the doings 77
of the shepherds, and gave testimony before Him against all the shepherds. And
he took the actual book and laid it down beside Him and departed.
[Chapter 90]
1
And I saw till that in this manner thirty-five shepherds undertook the pasturing
(of the sheep), and they severally completed their periods as did the first; and
others received them into their 2 hands, to
pasture them for their period, each shepherd in his own period. And after that I
saw in my vision all the birds of heaven coming, the eagles, the vultures, the
kites, the ravens; but the eagles led all the birds; and they began to devour
those sheep, and to pick out their eyes and to 3
devour their flesh. And the sheep cried out because their flesh was being
devoured by the birds, 4 and as for me I looked
and lamented in my sleep over that shepherd who pastured the sheep. And I saw
until those sheep were devoured by the dogs and eagles and kites, and they left
neither flesh nor skin nor sinew remaining on them till only their bones stood
there: and their bones too fell 5 to the earth and
the sheep became few. And I saw until that twenty-three had undertaken the
pasturing and completed in their several periods fifty-eight times. 6
But behold lambs were borne by those white sheep, and they began to open their
eyes and to see, 7 and to cry to the sheep. Yea,
they cried to them, but they did not hearken to what they said to 8
them, but were exceedingly deaf, and their eyes were very exceedingly blinded.
And I saw in the vision how the ravens flew upon those lambs and took one of
those lambs, and dashed the sheep 9 in pieces and
devoured them. And I saw till horns grew upon those lambs, and the ravens cast
down their horns; and I saw till there sprouted a great horn of one of those
sheep, and their eyes 10 were opened. And it
looked at them [and their eyes opened], and it cried to the sheep, and the 11
rams saw it and all ran to it. And notwithstanding all this those eagles and
vultures and ravens and kites still kept tearing the sheep and swooping down
upon them and devouring them: still the sheep remained silent, but the rams
lamented and cried out. And those ravens fought and battled with it and sought
to lay low its horn, but they had no power over it. All the eagles and vultures
and ravens and kites were gathered together, and there came with them all the
sheep of the field, yea, they all came together, and helped each other to break
that horn of the ram. 19 And I saw till a great
sword was given to the sheep, and the sheep proceeded against all the beasts of
the field to slay them, and all the beasts and the birds of the heaven fled
before their face. And I saw that man, who wrote the book according to the
command of the Lord, till he opened that book concerning the destruction which
those twelve last shepherds had wrought, and showed that they had destroyed much
more than their predecessors, before the Lord of the sheep. And I saw till the
Lord of the sheep came unto them and took in His hand the staff of His wrath,
and smote the earth, and the earth clave asunder, and all the beasts and all the
birds of the heaven fell from among those sheep, and were swallowed up in the
earth and it covered them. 20 And I saw till a
throne was erected in the pleasant land, and the Lord of the sheep sat Himself
thereon, and the other took the sealed books and opened those books before the
Lord of the sheep. 21 And the Lord called those
men the seven first white ones, and commanded that they should bring before Him,
beginning with the first star which led the way, all the stars whose privy
members 22 were like those of horses, and they
brought them all before Him. And He said to that man who wrote before Him, being
one of those seven white ones, and said unto him: ' Take those seventy shepherds
to whom I delivered the sheep, and who taking them on their own authority slew
more 23 than I commanded them.' And behold they
were all bound, I saw, and they all stood before Him. 24
And the judgement was held first over the stars, and they were judged and found
guilty, and went to the place of condemnation, and they were cast into an abyss,
full of fire and flaming, and full 25 of pillars
of fire. And those seventy shepherds were judged and found guilty, and they were
cast 26 into that fiery abyss. And I saw at that
time how a like abyss was opened in the midst of the earth, full of fire, and
they brought those blinded sheep, and they were all judged and found guilty and 27
cast into this fiery abyss, and they burned; now this abyss was to the right of
that house. And I saw those sheep burning and their bones burning. 28
And I stood up to see till they folded up that old house; and carried off all
the pillars, and all the beams and ornaments of the house were at the same time
folded up with it, and they carried 29 it off and
laid it in a place in the south of the land. And I saw till the Lord of the
sheep brought a new house greater and loftier than that first, and set it up in
the place of the first which had been folded up: all its pillars were new, and
its ornaments were new and larger than those of the first, the old one which He
had taken away, and all the sheep were within it. 30
And I saw all the sheep which had been left, and all the beasts on the earth,
and all the birds of the heaven, falling down and doing homage to those sheep
and making petition to and obeying 31 them in
every thing. And thereafter those three who were clothed in white and had seized
me by my hand [who had taken me up before], and the hand of that ram also
seizing hold of me, they 32 took me up and set me
down in the midst of those sheep before the judgement took place. And those 33
sheep were all white, and their wool was abundant and clean. And all that had
been destroyed and dispersed, and all the beasts of the field, and all the birds
of the heaven, assembled in that house, and the Lord of the sheep rejoiced with
great joy because they were all good and had returned to 34
His house. And I saw till they laid down that sword, which had been given to the
sheep, and they brought it back into the house, and it was sealed before the
presence of the Lord, and all the sheep 35 were
invited into that house, but it held them not. And the eyes of them all were
opened, and they 36 saw the good, and there was
not one among them that did not see. And I saw that that house was large and
broad and very full. 37 And I saw that a white
bull was born, with large horns and all the beasts of the field and all the 38
birds of the air feared him and made petition to him all the time. And I saw
till all their generations were transformed, and they all became white bulls;
and the first among them became a lamb, and that lamb became a great animal and
had great black horns on its head; and the Lord of the sheep 39
rejoiced over it and over all the oxen. And I slept in their midst: and I awoke
and saw everything. 40 This is the vision which I
saw while I slept, and I awoke and blessed the Lord of righteousness and 41
gave Him glory. Then I wept with a great weeping and my tears stayed not till I
could no longer endure it: when I saw, they flowed on account of what I had
seen; for everything shall come and 42 be
fulfilled, and all the deeds of men in their order were shown to me. On that
night I remembered the first dream, and because of it I wept and was
troubled-because I had seen that vision
BOOK OF ENOCH
From-The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha
of the Old Testament
H.R. Charles Oxford: The Clarendon Press
Section V. XCI-CIV
(i.e. XCII, XCI. 1-1O, 18-19, XCIII. 1-1O, XCI. 12-17, XCIV-CIV.).
A Book of Exhortation and Promised Blessing for the Righteous
and of Malediction and Woe for the Sinners.
[Chapter 92]
1
The book written by Enoch-[Enoch indeed wrote this complete doctrine of wisdom,
(which is) praised of all men and a judge of all the earth] for all my children
who shall dwell on the earth. And for the future generations who shall observe
uprightness and peace.
2
Let not your spirit be troubled on account of the times;
For
the Holy and Great One has appointed days for all things.
3
And the righteous one shall arise from sleep,
[Shall
arise] and walk in the paths of righteousness,
And
all his path and conversation shall be in eternal goodness and grace.
4
He will be gracious to the righteous and give him eternal uprightness,
And
He will give him power so that he shall be (endowed) with goodness and
righteousness.
And
he shall walk in eternal light.
5
And sin shall perish in darkness for ever,
And
shall no more be seen from that day for evermore.
[Chapter 91]
1
And now, my son Methuselah, call to me all thy brothers
And
gather together to me all the sons of thy mother;
For
the word calls me,
And
the spirit is poured out upon me,
That
I may show you everything
That
shall befall you for ever.'
2
And there upon Methuselah went and summoned to him all his brothers
and assembled his relatives.
3
And he spake unto all the children of righteousness and said:
'Hear,
ye sons of Enoch, all the words of your father,
And
hearken aright to the voice of my mouth;
For
I exhort you and say unto you, beloved:
4
Love uprightness and walk therein.
And
draw not nigh to uprightness with a double heart,
And
associate not with those of a double heart,
But
walk in righteousness, my sons.
And
it shall guide you on good paths,
And
righteousness shall be your companion.
5
For I know that violence must increase on the earth,
And
a great chastisement be executed on the earth,
Yea,
it shall be cut off from its roots,
And
its whole structure be destroyed.
6
And unrighteousness shall again be consummated on the earth,
And
all the deeds of unrighteousness and of violence
And
transgression shall prevail in a twofold degree.
7
And when sin and unrighteousness and blasphemy
And
violence in all kinds of deeds increase,
And
apostasy and transgression and uncleanness increase,
A
great chastisement shall come from heaven upon all these,
And
the holy Lord will come forth with wrath and chastisement
To
execute judgement on earth.
8
In those days violence shall be cut off from its roots,
And
the roots of unrighteousness together with deceit,
And
they shall be destroyed from under heaven.
9
And all the idols of the heathen shall be abandoned,
And
the temples burned with fire,
And
they shall remove them from the whole earth,
And
they (i.e. the heathen) shall be cast into the judgement of fire,
And
shall perish in wrath and in grievous judgement for ever.
10
And the righteous shall arise from their sleep,
And
wisdom shall arise and be given unto them.
[And after that
the roots of unrighteousness shall be cut off, and the sinners shall be
destroyed by the sword . . . shall be cut off from the blasphemers in every
place, and those who plan violence and those who commit blasphemy shall perish
by the sword.]
"It is our duty to force all mankind to accept the
seven Noahide laws, and if not—they will be killed."
(Rabbi Yitzhak Ginsburg, Ma'ariv, October 6, 2004) ...
18
And now I tell you, my sons, and show you
The
paths of righteousness and the paths of violence.
Yea,
I will show them to you again
That
ye may know what will come to pass.
19
And now, hearken unto me, my sons,
And
walk in the paths of righteousness,
And
walk not in the paths of violence;
For
all who walk in the paths of unrighteousness shall perish for ever.'
[Chapter 93]
1,2
And after that Enoch both gave and began to recount from the books. And Enoch
said:
'
Concerning the children of righteousness and concerning the elect of
the world,
And
concerning the plant of uprightness, I will speak these things,
Yea,
I Enoch will declare (them) unto you, my sons:
According
to that which appeared to me in the heavenly vision,
And
which I have known through the word of the holy angels,
And
have learnt from the heavenly tablets.'
3
And Enoch began to recount from the books and said:
'
I was born the seventh in the first week,
While
judgement and righteousness still endured.
4
And after me there shall arise in the second week great wickedness,
And
deceit shall have sprung up;
And
in it there shall be the first end.
And
in it a man shall be saved;
And
after it is ended unrighteousness shall grow up,
And
a law shall be made for the sinners.
And
after that in the third week at its close
A
man shall be elected as the plant of righteous judgement,
And
his posterity shall become the plant of righteousness for evermore.
Isa:9:6: For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counseller, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
6
And after that in the fourth week, at its close,
Visions
of the holy and righteous shall be seen,
And
a law for all generations and an enclosure shall be made for them.
7
And after that in the fifth week, at its close,
The
house of glory and dominion shall be built for ever.
8
And after that in the sixth week all who live in it shall be blinded,
And
the hearts of all of them shall godlessly forsake wisdom.
And
in it a man shall ascend;
And
at its close the house of dominion shall be burnt with fire,
And
the whole race of the chosen root shall be dispersed.
9
And after that in the seventh week shall an apostate generation arise,
And
many shall be its deeds,
And
all its deeds shall be apostate.
10
And at its close shall be elected
The
elect righteous of the eternal plant of righteousness,
To
receive sevenfold instruction concerning all His creation.
11
[For who is there of all the children of men that is able to hear the voice of
the Holy One without being troubled ? And who can think His thoughts ? and who
is there that can behold all the works 12 of
heaven ? And how should there be one who could behold the heaven, and who is
there that could understand the things of heaven and see a soul or a spirit and
could tell thereof, or ascend and see 13 all
their ends and think them or do like them ? And who is there of all men that
could know what is the breadth and the length of the earth, and to whom has been
shown the measure of all of them ? 14 Or is there
any one who could discern the length of the heaven and how great is its height,
and upon what it is founded, and how great is the number of the stars, and where
all the luminaries rest ?]
[Chapter 91]
12
And after that there shall be another, the eighth week, that of
righteousness,
And
a sword shall be given to it that a righteous judgement may be
executed on the oppressors,
And
sinners shall be delivered into the hands of the righteous.
13
And at its close they shall acquire houses through their
righteousness,
And
a house shall be built for the Great King in glory for evermore,
14d
And all mankind shall look to the path of uprightness.
14a
And after that, in the ninth week, the righteous judgement shall be
revealed to the whole world,
b
And all the works of the godless shall vanish from all the earth,
c
And the world shall be written down for destruction.
15
And after this, in the tenth week in the seventh part,
There
shall be the great eternal judgement,
In
which He will execute vengeance amongst the angels.
16
And the first heaven shall depart and pass away,
And
a new heaven shall appear,
And
all the powers of the heavens shall give sevenfold light.
17
And after that there will be many weeks without number for ever,
And
all shall be in goodness and righteousness,
And
sin shall no more be mentioned for ever.
[Chapter 94]
1
And now I say unto you, my sons, love righteousness and walk therein;
For
the paths of righteousness are worthy of acceptation,
But
the paths of unrighteousness shall suddenly be destroyed and vanish.
2
And to certain men of a generation shall the paths of violence and of
death be revealed,
And
they shall hold themselves afar from them,
And
shall not follow them.
3
And now I say unto you the righteous:
Walk
not in the paths of wickedness, nor in the paths of death,
And
draw not nigh to them, lest ye be destroyed.
4
But seek and choose for yourselves righteousness and an elect life,
And
walk in the paths of peace,
And
ye shall live and prosper.
5
And hold fast my words in the thoughts of your hearts,
And
suffer them not to be effaced from your hearts;
For
I know that sinners will tempt men to evilly-entreat wisdom,
So
that no place may be found for her,
And
no manner of temptation may minish.
6
Woe to those who build unrighteousness and oppression
And
lay deceit as a foundation;
For
they shall be suddenly overthrown,
And
they shall have no peace.
7
Woe to those who build their houses with sin;
For
from all their foundations shall they be overthrown,
And
by the sword shall they fall.
[And
those who acquire gold and silver in judgement suddenly shall perish.]
8
Woe to you, ye rich, for ye have trusted in your riches,
And
from your riches shall ye depart,
Because
ye have not remembered the Most High in the days of your riches.
9
Ye have committed blasphemy and unrighteousness,
And
have become ready for the day of slaughter,
And
the day of darkness and the day of the great judgement.
10
Thus I speak and declare unto you:
He
who hath created you will overthrow you,
And
for your fall there shall be no compassion,
And
your Creator will rejoice at your destruction.
11
And your righteous ones in those days shall be
A
reproach to the sinners and the godless.
[Chapter 95]
1
Oh that mine eyes were [a cloud of] waters
That
I might weep over you,
And
pour down my tears as a cloud of waters:
That
so I might rest from my trouble of heart!
2
who has permitted you to practice reproaches and wickedness ?
And
so judgement shall overtake you, sinners.
3
Fear not the sinners, ye righteous;
For
again will the Lord deliver them into your hands,
That
ye may execute judgement upon them according to your desires.
4
Woe to you who fulminate anathemas which cannot be reversed:
Healing
shall therefore be far from you because of your sins.
5
Woe to you who requite your neighbour with evil;
For
ye shall be requited according to your works.
6
Woe to you, lying witnesses,
And
to those who weigh out injustice,
For
suddenly shall ye perish.
7
Woe to you, sinners, for ye persecute the righteous;
For
ye shall be delivered up and persecuted because of injustice,
And
heavy shall its yoke be upon you.
[Chapter 96]
1
Be hopeful, ye righteous; for suddenly shall the sinners perish before
you,
And
ye shall have lordship over them according to your desires.
2
[And in the day of the tribulation of the sinners,
Your
children shall mount and rise as eagles,
And
higher than the vultures will be your nest,
And
ye shall ascend and enter the crevices of the earth,
And
the clefts of the rock for ever as coneys before the unrighteous,
And
the sirens shall sigh because of you-and weep.]
3
Wherefore fear not, ye that have suffered;
For
healing shall be your portion,
And
a bright light shall enlighten you,
And
the voice of rest ye shall hear from heaven.
4
Woe unto you, ye sinners, for your riches make you appear like the
righteous,
But
your hearts convict you of being sinners,
And
this fact shall be a testimony against you for a memorial of (your)
evil deeds.
5
Woe to you who devour the finest of the wheat,
And
drink wine in large bowls,
And
tread under foot the lowly with your might.
6
Woe to you who drink water from every fountain,
For
suddenly shall ye be consumed and wither away,
Because
ye have forsaken the fountain of life.
7
Woe to you who work unrighteousness
And
deceit and blasphemy:
It
shall be a memorial against you for evil.
8
Woe to you, ye mighty,
Who
with might oppress the righteous;
For
the day of your destruction is coming.
In
those days many and good days shall come to the righteous-in the day
of your judgement.
[Chapter 97]
1
Believe, ye righteous, that the sinners will become a shame
And
perish in the day of unrighteousness.
2
Be it known unto you (ye sinners) that the Most High is mindful of
your destruction,
And
the angels of heaven rejoice over your destruction.
3
What will ye do, ye sinners,
And
whither will ye flee on that day of judgement,
When
ye hear the voice of the prayer of the righteous ?
4
Yea, ye shall fare like unto them,
Against
whom this word shall be a testimony:
"
Ye have been companions of sinners."
5
And in those days the prayer of the righteous shall reach unto the
Lord,
And
for you the days of your judgement shall come.
Rv:8:3: And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne.
Rv:8:4: And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel's hand.
6
And all the words of your unrighteousness shall be read out before the
Great Holy One,
And
your faces shall be covered with shame,
And
He will reject every work which is grounded on unrighteousness.
7
Woe to you, ye sinners, who live on the mid ocean and on the dry land,
Whose
remembrance is evil against you.
8
Woe to you who acquire silver and gold in unrighteousness and say:
"
We have become rich with riches and have possessions;
And
have acquired everything we have desired.
9
And now let us do what we purposed:
For
we have gathered silver,
9c
And many are the husbandmen in our houses."
9d
And our granaries are (brim) full as with water,
10
Yea and like water your lies shall flow away;
For
your riches shall not abide
But
speedily ascend from you;
For
ye have acquired it all in unrighteousness,
And
ye shall be given over to a great curse.
[Chapter 98]
1
And now I swear unto you, to the wise and to the foolish,
For
ye shall have manifold experiences on the earth.
2
For ye men shall put on more adornments than a woman,
And
coloured garments more than a virgin:
In
royalty and in grandeur and in power,
And
in silver and in gold and in purple,
And
in splendour and in food they shall be poured out as water.
3
Therefore they shall be wanting in doctrine and wisdom,
And
they shall perish thereby together with their possessions;
And
with all their glory and their splendour,
And
in shame and in slaughter and in great destitution,
Their
spirits shall be cast into the furnace of fire.
4
I have sworn unto you, ye sinners, as a mountain has not become a
slave,
And
a hill does not become the handmaid of a woman,
Even
so sin has not been sent upon the earth,
But
man of himself has created it,
And
under a great curse shall they fall who commit it.
5
And barrenness has not been given to the woman,
But
on account of the deeds of her own hands she dies without children.
6
I have sworn unto you, ye sinners, by the Holy Great One,
That
all your evil deeds are revealed in the heavens,
And
that none of your deeds of oppression are covered and hidden.
sinner = anti-Christ, anti-God
7
And do not think in your spirit nor say in your heart that ye do not know and
that ye do not see 8 that every sin is every day
recorded in heaven in the presence of the Most High. From henceforth ye know
that all your oppression wherewith ye oppress is written down every day till the
day of your judgement. 9 Woe to you, ye fools, for
through your folly shall ye perish: and ye transgress against the wise, 10
and so good hap shall not be your portion. And now, know ye that ye are prepared
for the day of destruction: wherefore do not hope to live, ye sinners, but ye
shall depart and die; for ye know no ransom; for ye are prepared for the day of
the great judgement, for the day of tribulation and great shame for your
spirits. 11 Woe to you, ye obstinate of heart,
who work wickedness and eat blood: Whence have ye good things to eat and to
drink and to be filled ? From all the good things which the Lord the Most High
has placed in abundance on the earth; therefore ye shall have no peace. 12
Woe to you who love the deeds of unrighteousness: wherefore do ye hope for good
hap unto yourselves? know that ye shall be delivered into the hands of the
righteous, and they shall cut 13 off your necks
and slay you, and have no mercy upon you. Woe to you who rejoice in the
tribulation of the righteous; for no grave shall be dug for you. Woe to you who
set at nought the words of 15 the righteous; for
ye shall have no hope of life. Woe to you who write down lying and godless
words; for they write down their lies that men may hear them and act godlessly
towards (their) 16 neighbour. Therefore they
shall have no peace but die a sudden death.
[Chapter 99]
1
Woe to you who work godlessness,
And
glory in lying and extol them:
Ye
shall perish, and no happy life shall be yours.
2
Woe to them who pervert the words of uprightness,
And
transgress the eternal law,
And
transform themselves into what they were not [into sinners]:
They
shall be trodden under foot upon the earth.
3
In those days make ready, ye righteous, to raise your prayers as a
memorial,
And
place them as a testimony before the angels,
That
they may place the sin of the sinners for a memorial before the Most
High.
4
In those days the nations shall be stirred up,
And
the families of the nations shall arise on the day of destruction.
5
And in those days the destitute shall go forth and carry off their
children,
And
they shall abandon them, so that their children shall perish through
them:
Yea,
they shall abandon their children (that are still) sucklings, and not
return to them,
And
shall have no pity on their beloved ones.
6,
7 And again I swear to you, ye sinners, that sin is
prepared for a day of unceasing bloodshed. And they who worship stones, and
grave images of gold and silver and wood (and stone) and clay, and those who
worship impure spirits and demons, and all kinds of idols not according to
knowledge, shall get no manner of help from them.
8
And they shall become godless by reason of the folly of their hearts,
And
their eyes shall be blinded through the fear of their hearts
And
through visions in their dreams.
9
Through these they shall become godless and fearful;
For
they shall have wrought all their work in a lie,
And
shall have worshiped a stone:
Therefore
in an instant shall they perish.
10
But in those days blessed are all they who accept the words of wisdom,
and understand them,
And
observe the paths of the Most High, and walk in the path of His
righteousness,
And
become not godless with the godless;
For
they shall be saved.
11
Woe to you who spread evil to your neighbours;
For
you shall be slain in Sheol.
12
Woe to you who make deceitful and false measures,
And
(to them) who cause bitterness on the earth;
For
they shall thereby be utterly consumed.
13
Woe to you who build your houses through the grievous toil of others,
And
all their building materials are the bricks and stones of sin;
I
tell you ye shall have no peace.
14
Woe to them who reject the measure and eternal heritage of their
fathers
And
whose souls follow after idols;
For
they shall have no rest.
15
Woe to them who work unrighteousness and help oppression,
And
slay their neighbours until the day of the great judgement.
16
For He shall cast down your glory,
And
bring affliction on your hearts,
And
shall arouse His fierce indignation
And
destroy you all with the sword;
And
all the holy and righteous shall remember your sins.
[Chapter 100]
1
And in those days in one place the fathers together with their sons
shall be smitten
And
brothers one with another shall fall in death
Till
the streams flow with their blood.
2
For a man shall not withhold his hand from slaying his sons and his
sons' sons,
And
the sinner shall not withhold his hand from his honoured brother:
From
dawn till sunset they shall slay one another.
Mt:10:21: And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.
Mt:10:35: For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
3
And the horse shall walk up to the breast in the blood of sinners,
And
the chariot shall be submerged to its height.
4
In those days the angels shall descend into the secret places
And
gather together into one place all those who brought down sin
And
the Most High will arise on that day of judgement
To
execute great judgement amongst sinners.
5
And over all the righteous and holy He will appoint guardians from
amongst the holy angels
To
guard them as the apple of an eye,
Until
He makes an end of all wickedness and all sin,
And
though the righteous sleep a long sleep, they have nought to fear.
6
And (then) the children of the earth shall see the wise in security,
And
shall understand all the words of this book,
And
recognize that their riches shall not be able to save them
In
the overthrow of their sins.
7
Woe to you, Sinners, on the day of strong anguish,
Ye
who afflict the righteous and burn them with fire:
Ye
shall be requited according to your works.
8
Woe to you, ye obstinate of heart,
Who
watch in order to devise wickedness:
Therefore
shall fear come upon you
And
there shall be none to help you.
9
Woe to you, ye sinners, on account of the words of your mouth,
And
on account of the deeds of your hands which your godlessness as
wrought,
In
blazing flames burning worse than fire shall ye burn.
10
And now, know ye that from the angels He will inquire as to your deeds in
heaven, from the sun and from the moon and from the stars in reference to your
sins because upon the earth ye execute 11
judgement on the righteous. And He will summon to testify against you every
cloud and mist and dew and rain; for they shall all be withheld because of you
from descending upon you, and they 12 shall be
mindful of your sins. And now give presents to the rain that it be not withheld
from descending upon you, nor yet the dew, when it has received gold and silver
from you that it may descend. When the hoar-frost and snow with their
chilliness, and all the snow-storms with all their plagues fall upon you, in
those days ye shall not be able to stand before them.
[Chapter 101]
1
Observe the heaven, ye children of heaven, and every work of the Most High, and
fear ye Him 2 and work no evil in His presence.
If He closes the windows of heaven, and withholds the rain and 3
the dew from descending on the earth on your account, what will ye do then? And
if He sends His anger upon you because of your deeds, ye cannot petition Him;
for ye spake proud and insolent 4 words against
His righteousness: therefore ye shall have no peace. And see ye not the sailors
of the ships, how their ships are tossed to and fro by the waves, and are shaken
by the winds, and are 5 in sore trouble ? And
therefore do they fear because all their goodly possessions go upon the sea with
them, and they have evil forebodings of heart that the sea will swallow them and
they will 6 perish therein. Are not the entire
sea and all its waters, and all its movements, the work of the Most 7
High, and has He not set limits to its doings, and confined it throughout by the
sand ? And at His reproof it is afraid and dries up, and all its fish die and
all that is in it; But ye sinners that are 8 on
the earth fear Him not. Has He not made the heaven and the earth, and all that
is therein ? Who has given understanding and wisdom to everything that moves on
the earth and in the sea. 9 Do not the sailors of
the ships fear the sea ? Yet sinners fear not the Most High.
[Chapter 102]
1
In those days when He hath brought a grievous fire upon you,
Whither
will ye flee, and where will ye find deliverance ?
And
when He launches forth His Word
against you Will you not be affrighted
and fear ?
2
And all the luminaries shall be affrighted with great fear,
And
all the earth shall be affrighted and tremble and be alarmed.
3
And all the angels shall execute their commandst
And
shall seek to hide themselves from the presence of the Great Glory,
And
the children of earth shall tremble and quake;
And
ye sinners shall be cursed for ever,
And
ye shall have no peace.
4
Fear ye not, ye souls of the righteous,
And
be hopeful ye that have died in righteousness.
5
And grieve not if your soul into Sheol has descended in grief,
And
that in your life your body fared not according to your goodness,
But
wait for the day of the judgement of sinners
And
for the day of cursing and chastisement.
6
And yet when ye die the sinners speak over you:
"
As we die, so die the righteous,
And
what benefit do they reap for their deeds ?
7
Behold, even as we, so do they die in grief and darkness,
And
what have they more than we ?
From
henceforth we are equal.
8
And what will they receive and what will they see for ever ?
Behold,
they too have died,
And
henceforth for ever shall they see no light."
9
I tell you, ye sinners, ye are content to eat and drink, and rob and sin, and
strip men naked, and 10 acquire wealth and see
good days. Have ye seen the righteous how their end falls out, that no manner 11
of violence is found in them till their death ? " Nevertheless they
perished and became as though they had not been, and their spirits descended
into Sheol in tribulation."
[Chapter 103]
1
Now, therefore, I swear to you, the righteous, by the glory of the Great and
Honoured and 2 Mighty One in dominion, and by His
greatness I swear to you.
I
know a mystery
And
have read the heavenly tablets,
And
have seen the holy books,
And
have found written therein and inscribed regarding them:
3
That all goodness and joy and glory are prepared for them,
And
written down for the spirits of those who have died in righteousness,
And
that manifold good shall be given to you in recompense for your
labours,
And
that your lot is abundantly beyond the lot of the living.
4
And the spirits of you who have died in righteousness shall live and
rejoice,
And
their spirits shall not perish, nor their memorial from before the
face of the Great One
Unto
all the generations of the world: wherefore no longer fear their
contumely.
5
Woe to you, ye sinners, when ye have died,
If
ye die in the wealth of your sins,
And
those who are like you say regarding you:
'
Blessed are the sinners: they have seen all their days.
6
And how they have died in prosperity and in wealth,
And
have not seen tribulation or murder in their life;
And
they have died in honour,
And
judgement has not been executed on them during their life."
7
Know ye, that their souls will be made to descend into Sheol
And
they shall be wretched in their great tribulation.
8
And into darkness and chains and a burning flame where there is
grievous judgement shall your spirits enter;
And
the great judgement shall be for all the generations of the world.
Woe
to you, for ye shall have no peace.
9
Say not in regard to the righteous and good who are in life:
"
In our troubled days we have toiled laboriously and experienced every
trouble,
And
met with much evil and been consumed,
And
have become few and our spirit small.
10
And we have been destroyed and have not found any to help us even with
a word:
We
have been tortured [and destroyed], and not hoped to see life from day
to day.
11
We hoped to be the head and have become the tail:
We
have toiled laboriously and had no satisfaction in our toil;
And
we have become the food of the sinners and the unrighteous,
And
they have laid their yoke heavily upon us.
12
They have had dominion over us that hated us and smote us;
And
to those that hated us we have bowed our necks
But
they pitied us not.
13
We desired to get away from them that we might escape and be at rest,
But
found no place whereunto we should flee and be safe from them.
14
And are complained to the rulers in our tribulation,
And
cried out against those who devoured us,
But
they did not attend to our cries
And
would not hearken to our voice.
15
And they helped those who robbed us and devoured us and those who made us few;
and they concealed their oppression, and they did not remove from us the yoke of
those that devoured us and dispersed us and murdered us, and they concealed
their murder, and remembered not that they had lifted up their hands against us.
[Chapter 104]
1
I swear unto you, that in heaven the angels remember you for good before the
glory of the Great 2 One: and your names are
written before the glory of the Great One. Be hopeful; for aforetime ye were put
to shame through ill and affliction; but now ye shall shine as the lights of
heaven, 3 ye shall shine and ye shall be seen,
and the portals of heaven shall be opened to you. And in your cry, cry for
judgement, and it shall appear to you; for all your tribulation shall be visited
on the 4 rulers, and on all who helped those who
plundered you. Be hopeful, and cast not away your hopes for ye shall have great
joy as the angels of heaven. What shall ye be obliged to do? Ye shall not have
to hide on the day of the great judgement and ye shall not be found as sinners,
and the eternal 6 judgement shall be far from you
for all the generations of the world.
Rv:6:15: And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains;
Rv:6:16: And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:
And now fear not, ye righteous, when ye
see the sinners growing strong and prospering in their ways: be not companions
with them,
Noahides
of Hell
7 but keep afar from their violence;
for ye shall become companions of the hosts of heaven. And, although ye sinners
say: " All our sins shall not be searched out and be written down,"
nevertheless 8 they shall write down all your
sins every day. And now I show unto you that light and darkness, 9
day and night, see all your sins. Be not godless in your hearts, and lie not and
alter not the words of uprightness, nor charge with lying the words of the Holy
Great One, nor take account of your 10 idols;
for all your lying and all your godlessness issue not in righteousness but in
great sin. And now I know this mystery, that sinners will alter and pervert the
words of righteousness in many ways, and will speak wicked words, and lie, and
practice great deceits, and write books concerning 11
their words. But when they write down truthfully all my words in their
languages, and do not change or minish ought from my words but write them all
down truthfully -all that I first testified 12
concerning them. Then, I know another mystery, that books will be given to the
righteous and the 13 wise to become a cause of
joy and uprightness and much wisdom. And to them shall the books be given, and
they shall believe in them and rejoice over them, and then shall all the
righteous who have learnt there from all the paths of uprightness be
recompensed.'
[Chapter 105]
1
In those days the Lord bade (them) to summon and testify to the children of
earth concerning their wisdom: Show (it) unto them; for ye are their guides, and
a recompense over the whole earth. 2 For I and My
son will be united with them for ever in the paths of uprightness in their
lives; and ye shall have peace: rejoice, ye children of uprightness. Amen.
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Rich
http://www.larouchepac.com/news/2008/11/22/inhofe-paulson-threatened-martial-law.html
Inhofe: Paulson Threatened Martial Law
November 22, 2008 (LPAC) -- Sen. James Inhofe (R-Ok.)
said yesterday that it was Treasury Secretary Henry
Paulson who personally told Congressmen that there would be martial law in
America if they did not pass the bailout of the banks as demanded by the
Bush Administration. On Oct. 2, Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Calif.) said
on the House floor that "Many of us were told in private
conversations that if we voted against this bill on Monday the sky would
fall, the market would drop two or three thousand points the first day,
another couple of thousand the second day, and a few members were even
told that there would be martial law in America if we voted no."
Now, Senator Inhofe, speaking on KFAQ radio station in
Tulsa, has confirmed who it was that issued this threat. The interview
host Pat Campbell asked Infhofe, "Somebody in D.C. was feeding you
guys quite a story prior to the bailout, a story that if we didn't do this
we were going to see something on the scale of the depression, there were
people talking about martial law being instituted, civil unrest. Who was
feeding you guys this stuff?"
Inhofe replied, "That's
Henry Paulson. We had a conference call early on, it was on a
Friday I think--a week and half before the vote on Oct. 1. So it would
have been ... the 19th of September, we had a conference call. In this
conference call and I guess there's no reason for me not to repeat what he
said, but he said, he painted this picture you just described. He said,
This is serious. This is the most serious thing that we faced."
Inhofe has demanded that the remaining funds not
already given away be taken back by the government, and suggested that
Paulson was giving the money to his
(Jewish) friends.
But simply taking money back is not a solution. There
is only one competent solution to this mess and that is a bankruptcy
re-organization as Lyndon LaRouche has defined.
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http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/968350.html
Last update - 12:07 30/03/2008


Finance Ministry devising plan to lure
billionaire Jews to Israel
By Haaretz Staff and Channel 10
Haaretz.com/Channel 10 daily feature for March 25, 2008.

A new Finance Ministry plan will instate major tax benefits to
lure to Israel the world's richest Jews and Israelis who have left the country.
But unlike campaigns to bring Jews of lesser means to Israel, this plan won't be
playing on sentiment.
The plan offers: